scottstirling on 05-Sep-2026 18:02:49 GMT about NGC 3242
Note the angular dimensions, dimminor > dimmajor, which is incorrect and the values themselves are dubious (though the dimminor looks close):
Angular dimensions: 0.10000000 0.51229334 31 (~) C
2021MNRAS.503.2887B
HASH 4.6 (https://hashpn.space/) lists angular dimensions for NGC 3242 as 31.5" (0.525') for dimmajor and 30.7" (0.5116667') for dimminor from "2003A&A...405..627T" aka
Angular dimensions of planetary nebulae (Tylenda+, 2003)
. The values here in SIMBAD have been set by data from "J/MNRAS/503/2887" (
PNe angular diameters from SED modeling (Bojicic+, 2021)
).
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