Planetary Nebula NGC
1501 in Camelopardalis
An LRGB color CCD image taken with a
Starlight Express MX-716 CCD camera thru Kopernik Observatory's Optical
Guidance Systems 20-inch F/8.1 telescope scope.
NGC 1501 is Planetary Nebula with
an irregular disk in the Constellation of Camelopardalis. William Herschel
discovered it in 1787. F. Sabbadin (1986, A&AS 64, 579) estimated its
distance to be roughly 4,890 light years.
Description of NGC 1501 in
The Deep Sky Field Guide to Uranometria 2000:
- Irregular disk.
- central star magnitude = 14.45
- Alternate name PK 144+6.1
Planetary
Nebulae: To
learn more about them, click here.
- NGC 1501
- Other ID: PK 144+6.1
- Magnitude: 13.3 (photo);
11.5 (visual)
- Constellation: Camelopardalis
- RA: 04h 06m 59.9s
- Dec: +60d 55' 00"
Epoch 2000
- Size (mins): 0.9'
- Classification: Planetary
nebula, ring; irregular disk.
Click below
to
George Normandin, KAS
March 4th, 2003