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IC 5117
A compact planetary nebula in Cygnus so small angularly that it resembles a stellar point source in modest telescopes, requiring spectroscopy to confirm its nature.
apps Top IC 5117 Alternatives
The top alternative to IC 5117 in 2026 is NGC 7027 with a score of 8.9/10, followed by Bow-Tie Nebula (8.5) and Soap Bubble Nebula (8.2).
NGC 7027
NGC 7027 is a vibrant planetary nebula located within the constellation Cygnus. Formed from the ejected material of a dy...
Bow-Tie Nebula
The Bow-Tie Nebula is NGC 40 in Cepheus, discovered by William Herschel in 1788 and shaped by a carbon-rich Wolf-Rayet c...
Soap Bubble Nebula
The Soap Bubble Nebula is a faint spherical planetary nebula in Cygnus, discovered by amateur astronomer Dave Jurasevich...
Blinking Planetary Nebula
The Blinking Planetary Nebula is NGC 6826 in Cygnus, named for the visual effect in which its nebula appears to blink ar...
Blinking Planetary Nebula (NGC 6826)
A planetary nebula in Cygnus that appears to blink when observed visually, an optical illusion caused by its unusually b...
Blue Snowball Nebula (NGC 7662)
A bright, compact planetary nebula in Andromeda discovered by William Herschel in 1784, notable for its nearly circular...
Stingray Nebula
The Stingray Nebula is a very young planetary nebula in Ara, notable for appearing in the 1980s around the fast-evolving...
Little Ghost Nebula
The Little Ghost Nebula is NGC 6369, a planetary nebula in Ophiuchus discovered by William Herschel in 1784 with a main...
Emerald Eye Nebula (NGC 6572)
A bright, compact planetary nebula in Ophiuchus about 3,900 light-years away, one of the most luminous planetaries in th...
NGC 6572 (Blue Racquetball)
A compact, vivid blue-green planetary nebula in Ophiuchus nicknamed the Blue Racquetball, notable for its exceptionally...
White-Eyed Pea Nebula (IC 4593)
A compact planetary nebula in Hercules notable for its bright central star and small angular size that produces a distin...
Cheeseburger Nebula (NGC 7026)
A bipolar planetary nebula in Cygnus roughly 6,000 light-years away, with two lobes flanking a dense equatorial waist th...
IC 4593 (White-Eyed Pea)
A compact planetary nebula in Hercules nicknamed the White-Eyed Pea, featuring a small bright blue-white disk and one of...
Fetus Nebula (NGC 7008)
A planetary nebula in Cygnus about 2,800 light-years away, notable for its irregular asymmetric shape whose outline in a...
Phantom Streak Nebula (NGC 6741)
A compact, high-surface-brightness planetary nebula in Aquila about 7,000 light-years away, notable for its extremely ho...
Minkowski 1-79
Bipolar planetary nebula catalogued by astronomer Rudolph Minkowski, displaying a classic hourglass-shaped morphology pr...
IC 351
A nearly circular, high-surface-brightness planetary nebula in Perseus, making it a useful spectroscopic calibration tar...
NGC 6886
A small, high-surface-brightness planetary nebula in Sagitta with a compact disk morphology, lying approximately 6,000 l...
Kohoutek 4-55
A multi-shell planetary nebula catalogued by Czech astronomer Luboš Kohoutek, whose concentric shells record successive...
NGC 6879
A small, high-excitation planetary nebula in Sagitta featuring a compact disk morphology and a hot central white dwarf,...
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