Object of the Season (Spring 2015)
NGC 6572 in Ophiuchus
Planetary Nebula NGC 6572 in Ophiuchus will be announced in DSO 167, and the results will be published in DSO 169.
This image was supplied by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
- Position (2000)
- 18 12 06.4 +06 51 15 (Oph)
- Visual magnitude
- 8.1 mag
- Central Star
- 13.6 mag
- Size
- 0.6' x 0.4'
- Distance
- 2500 ly
- Other Designations
- Σ 6, h 2000, GC 4390, PK 34+11-1, VV 159, ARO 7
Wolfgang Steinicke - Nebulae and Clusters Section Director