Obituary: Obs. 4, 245 (1881); MNRAS 42, 147 (1882); AN 100, 129 (1881)

Bruhns discovered the emission nebula NGC 2175 in Orion. He might have found it at Berlin Observatory using a small comet seeker about 1857. The object is included as #21 in Arthur Auwers' list of new nebulae. In 1860 Bruhns became director of the new Leipzig Observatory.

D	N	NI	Y	I	T	Con	Type	S	Author	Title	Source
1	N	2175	1857	Rr	v	ORI	EN	2	Auwers, A.	William Herschel's Verzeichnisse von Nebelflecken und Sternhaufen	Königsberg 1862

Berlin Observatory

Painting by Freyendanck, 1838

 

Leipzig Observatory