Object: Planetary nebula NGC 6572 Constell: OPH RA: 18h 12.1m Decl: +06° 51' Epoch: 2000 Mag: 8.1m (v) Size: 15''x12'' Type: 2a Observer: Jere Kahanpää Obs. place: Hartola, Finland Date/Time: 5./6.5.1994, 00.25 Telescope: N 205/1000 Magn: 133x Filter: Field: 22' NE Lim.mag: 4.5m (est.) Background sky: Seeing: 4-5 Weather: Some thin mist, the sky is clearly blue at midnight - the last observations of this season. Brightness: 1 Alt: Description: A very bright and quite small disk. Only a slight concentration towards the middle is visible. The catastrophic seeing makes the disk very fuzzy. Size about 10''.