NGC 1535

NGC 1535 is the name of the brightest planetary nebula in the constellation Eridanus. NGC 1535 has a diameter of 45 " and has an apparent magnitude of 10.5 mag. Fog is at least 1500 light years from Earth. He was discovered on February 1, 1785 by the German - British astronomer William Herschel.

Visual observation

Although the brightness of NGC 1535 is enough for an observation in a small telescope from about 70 mm from opening, there is one, but only find a faint stellar object. In a larger telescope from about 6 " opening NGC 1535 is already very noticeable. 12th mag central star is but even with 10" a little hard to watch opening a successful observation requires a correspondingly good seeing.