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M 16

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Right ascension: 18h 18m 45.12s
Declination: −13° 47′ 31.2″
Galactic l, b: 16.961, 0.8106
Parallax: 0.566 mas
Redshift z: 6.004e-05
Radial velocity: 18 km/s
Proper motion: 0.178, -1.576 mas/yr
Angular size: 80′ × 80′

Also known as

18 identifiers

C 1816-138CTB 51GRS G017.00 +00.30IC 4703LBN 016.96+00.78LBN 67LMH 22M 16MM 21NGC 6611NRL 14OCISM 10OCl 54Villafranca O-019Eagle Nebula[KPR2004b] 441[KPS2012] MWSC 2886Star Queen

In the same field

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Object	Type	Separation	V
NGC 6611 307	YSO	10.97″	14.1
Cl* NGC 6611 GMD 270	OrionV*	13.36″	18.49
NGC 6611 300	YSO	16.02″	12.61
2MASS J18184584-1347463	YSO	18.48″	19.33
2MASS J18184504-1347521	OrionV*	21.01″	—
2MASS J18184545-1347102	YSO	21.55″	18.73
NGC 6611 311	EmLine*	22.99″	12.74
Cl* NGC 6611 GMD 1083	YSO	23.83″	16.59
Cl* NGC 6611 GMD 289	YSO	24.73″	16.76
NGC 6611 296	YSO	26.08″	11.72
2MASS J18184325-1347362	YSO	27.63″	20.33

Provenance

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Machine-readable: /api/v1/object/m-16 · Registry entry updated 2026-08-14.