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NGC6044

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 16:4:59.6
Declination: +17:52:13
Constellation: HER
Visual Magnitude: 14.3

Historic Information


Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 16.0

Observational


Summary description: eeF, vS, R, vF * close p
Sub-type: S0

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 6044 = IC 1172, which see.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 6044 17.5" (5/13/88): very faint, very small, round. A mag 14 star lies 1.4' WSW. Located 5.6' N of NGC 6043 in the core of AGC 2151.