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| Catalogue and alternative designations | VBRC
5, The Hammer Nebula
|
| Type | Planetary Nebula |
| Position | 13 44 00.03 -60 49 46.9 |
| Constellation | Centaurus |
| Camera and Telescope | STXL16200 and 36.8 cm Ritchey Chretien |
| Focal Ratio | F9 |
| Exposure Details | This is a LHaOIIIRGB image with RGB stars using Astrodon series 2 filters. Colour exposures binned 2x2, luminance unbinned. Hydrogen Alpha = 240 minutes, Oxygen III= 300 minutes. Red = Green = Blue = 20 minutes. |
| Description | A
very obscure planetary nebula
approximately 1 x 1.5 arcminutes
in size. The shape is very
unusual for a planetary and
resembles a hammer, hence the
name. It is part of the
VBRC catalogue. VBRC stands for
"van den Bergh and
Racine" and is a catalogue
of 7 planetary nebulae published
in 1973 by the astronomers
Sidney van den Bergh and René
Racine. |