This is an odd looking, obscure little galaxy
whose primary claim to fame is its appearance in a photograph in
Burnham's, although nothing is written about it. In a wide field
eyepiece it looks like a tiny round smudge near a distinct
grouping of stars. What makes this object interesting in the
eyepiece is that galaxies this small don't typically have such a
high surface brightness; for this reason its appearance is more
like that of a planetary nebula. Even at high magnification it
appears more like a planetary than a galaxy, complete with a
central star--the tiny nearly-stellar core of the galaxy.
