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NGC6020

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 15:57:8.1
Declination: +22:24:18
Constellation: SER
Visual Magnitude: 12.7

Historic Information

Discoverer: Safford
Year of discovery: 1866
Discovery aperture: 18.5

Observational

Summary description: eF, eS, iR, lbM
Sub-type: E3

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 6020 = IC 1148, which see.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6020

17.5" (5/14/88): fairly faint, small, round, broad concentration.  Situated among a group of stars and at the midpoint of a mag 11 star 1.9' WSW and a 13 star 1.9' ESE of center.  Another mag 13 star is 1.7' SSE of center.