Key facts
- Right ascension
- 4 21 57.1
- Declination
- +19 ° 32 ′ 7 ″
- Constellation
- Taurus
- Designations
- Hind's Nebula, Sharpless 238, PGC 1595946
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- N1555s.jpg
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- catalog code
- [B77] 84
- Commons category
- NGC 1555
- time of discovery or invention
- 1852-10-11
- right ascension
- 65.48792
- declination
- 19.53528
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NGC 1555, sometimes known as Hind's Variable Nebula, Sh2-238 or HH 155, is a variable nebula 4 light years across, illuminated by the star T Tauri, located in the constellation Taurus. It is 400 light years away from Earth, and has a magnitude (B) of 9.98. It is also in the second Sharpless catalog as 238. It is a Herbig–Haro object. The nebula was discovered on October 11, 1852, by John Russell Hind.
NGC 1555 from the 0.8m Schulman at the Mount Lemmon Sky Center, AZ.
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