This is one of my all time fave "strange" objects for viewing with a small telescope. It is quite easy to pick up even from suburban sites (mag 5.5 limit) and if you know where to look it is quite easy to spot even in a 15x70 tripod mounted binoculars. But to see this object well you need to employ a nebular filter (I use the Lumicon UHC) and a magnification of about 75x and above to see shape and structure. The first time I saw this was through Kev's 16" truss dob at Leyburn where he dubbed it the "leafy seadragon" planetary. That term will always stay with me although some also call it the spiral planetary (and it does look like a spiral galaxy with its arms). Definately one to check out. See my sketch:
http://www.geocities.com/dhumpie/dastro/5189.jpg
Darren