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
- Instance of
- variable nebula
- Constellation
- Taurus
- Image
- N1555s.jpg
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- catalog code
- [B77] 84
- Commons category
- NGC 1555
- discoverer or inventor
- John Russell Hind
- time of discovery or invention
- 1852-10-11
- right ascension
- 65.48792
- declination
- 19.53528
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q835928” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.