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NGC 2183

LBN 996

Set a site to see tonight's sky

When NGC 2183 is up, how long it stays usable and when it is in season all depend on where you observe from. Set your site and this page adds tonight's answer and its year.

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The science

What you are looking at

In one sentence

Interstellar hydrogen ionised by the ultraviolet light of hot, young stars embedded in it.

Class explainer for H II region (catalogue type). SIMBAD files the object it matched under 'RNe' (reflection nebula).

The facts

NGC 2183 is an emission nebula in Monoceros, catalogued as LBN 996. SIMBAD gives its distance as 0.861 kpc (−0.086 kpc / +0.086 kpc) — ≈ 2,810 ly from 2 measurements. The light reaching us from it now left it around 785 BCE. On the sky it spans 12′ — 39% of the full Moon's width. At that distance, that angle means it is roughly 10 light-years across. It shines at magnitude 15.2.

Sources: AstroBrain catalogue; Lynds B.T. 1965, ApJS 12, 163, via CDS/VizieR VII/9; CDS/SIMBAD astronomical database, Strasbourg (SIMBAD record NGC 2183 · distance from 2021MNRAS.503.3279S). Contains information from SIMBAD, which is made available here under the Open Database License (ODbL). Download the SIMBAD-derived data.

For scale

Angular size, as it would sit on your sky.

10 ly

across — 2× the distance from the Sun to its nearest neighbour star (4.37 ly).

The same patch of sky in visible light

Sky image
Observatory photos and open-licence sky surveys.
Credits on each image.

Neighbours in the sky

Sky maths: apparent positions with refraction, one-minute steps; usable = full astronomical dark, at least 30° up and clear of your skyline. Survey images: CDS, Strasbourg (DSS2 and other surveys). Science: SIMBAD. The hours, heights and Moon on this page use no weather forecast; the rank is this target’s place in the Targets list, whose score also counts the cloud forecast when there is one.

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