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NGC6040
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 16:4:26.7
Declination: +17:45:0
Constellation: HER
Visual Magnitude: 14.2
Historic Information
Discoverer: Stephan
Year of discovery: 1870
Discovery aperture: 31.0
Observational
Summary description: vF, eS, F * close
Sub-type: SBc
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 6040. See NGC 5736, as well as NGC 6039 = NGC 6042 where I suggest that
Swift might have fudged his position for this to make it agree better with
Stephan's micrometrically-measured place.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6040
24" (6/4/16): at 322x; fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 5:2 SW-NE, small brighter core. The southwest and northeast extensions are slightly curved or misaligned. NGC 6040B, just 26" S of center, appeared fairly faint, small, round, 12" diameter. Easily visible due to relatively high surface brightness.
17.5" (5/13/88): faint, small, elongated 5:2 SSW-NNE, low even surface brightness. Forms a close interacting system with NGC 6040B 26" S. The companion appeared very faint, very small, slightly elongated E-W.
First of three NGC galaxies with NGC 6041 2.7' SE and NGC 6042 4.3' SE. Also, IC 1170 is just visible 2.0' SSE. Located within the central core of AGC 2151.
17.5" (3/23/85): faint, small, elongated SSW-NNE. First of 3. NGC 6040B was not resolved.
13.1" (5/14/83): very faint, small, diffuse.