What Is the Brightness of the Central Star in the Saturn Nebula?

💡 The Answer

• The central star is a white dwarf with an apparent magnitude of 11.5.
• This is too faint to see with the naked eye but visible in modest telescopes.
• The star's brightness indicates its high temperature and small size.
• Magnitude 11.5 makes it about 400 times fainter than the faintest naked-eye star.