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Epic nebula 51 EP

NGC 7094

RA 324.2207° · Dec 12.7886° · openngc

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Score breakdown

· 6 badges
51 pts · Epic
Epic 78 pts → Anomaly
  • Planetary nebula (a dying star's shell) +12
  • Its dying star is still visible +12
  • Coming towards us +10
  • Nebula +8
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Faint fuzzy (mag > 13) +3
Total score 51

27 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Nebula · +8
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Planetary nebula (a dying star's shell) · +12
  • Coming towards us · +10
  • Its dying star is still visible · +12
  • Faint fuzzy (mag > 13) · +3

Trivia

What it actually is

  • What it actually is. A planetary nebula: the shed outer atmosphere of a dying Sun-like star, lit from within by the naked stellar core left behind.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Far away by human standards, yet still a local address inside the Milky Way's spiral arms.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 13.4 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures, over in Pegasus.
  • Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around August — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 93.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 8.3 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

central star mag
13.68
constellation
Peg
dist ly
5304.2121
dso type
PN
mag
13.4
name
NGC 7094
radial velocity kms
-101
size arcmin
1.65

About NGC 7094

NGC 7094 is an epic nebula. It lies about 5,304.2 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Peg and shines at apparent magnitude 13.4.

A planetary nebula: the shed outer atmosphere of a dying Sun-like star, lit from within by the naked stellar core left behind.

How to see it

Look for NGC 7094 in the constellation Peg. At apparent magnitude 13.4, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, NGC 7094 is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.

Why NGC 7094 is an epic nebula

NGC 7094 scores 51 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 27 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 6 science badges — Nebula, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Planetary nebula (a dying star's shell), Coming towards us, Its dying star is still visible and Faint fuzzy (mag > 13) — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.