page_title: NGC 3195
hierarchical_section_title: NGC 3195
caption_attribution_description: Planetary Nebula NGC 3195
context_page_description: NGC 3195 is a planetary nebula located in the constellation Chamaeleon. It is the most southern of all the bright sizable planetary nebula in the sky, and remains invisible to all northern observers. Discovered by Sir John Herschel in 1835, this 11.6 apparent magnitude planetary nebula is slightly oval in shape, with dimensions of 40×35 arc seconds, and can be seen visually in telescopic apertures of 10.5 centimetres at low magnifications.
  Spectroscopy reveals that NGC 3195 is approaching Earth at 17 kilometres per second, while the nebulosity is expanding at around 40 kilometres per second. The central star is listed as >15.3V or 16.1B magnitude. Distance is estimated at about 1.7 kpc.
context_section_description: NGC 3195 (also known as Caldwell 109) is a planetary nebula located  in the constellation Chamaeleon. It is the most southern of all the bright sizable planetary nebula in the sky, and remains invisible to all northern observers. Discovered by Sir John Herschel in 1835, this 11.6 apparent magnitude planetary nebula is slightly oval in shape, with dimensions of 40×35 arc seconds, and can be seen visually in telescopic apertures of 10.5 centimetres (4.1 in) at low magnifications.
  Spectroscopy reveals that NGC 3195 is approaching Earth at 17 kilometres per second (11 mi/s), while the nebulosity is expanding at around 40 kilometres per second (25 mi/s). The central star is listed as >15.3V or 16.1B magnitude.  Distance is estimated at about 1.7 kpc.
caption: A Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of NGC 3195.
  Credit: HST/NASA/ESA.
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