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NGC6049

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 16:5:37.8
Declination: +8:5:48
Constellation: SER
Visual Magnitude: 6.3

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1830
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: * 7 in photosphere
Sub-type: *

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 6049 = HD 144426 = SAO 121361.  JH's description reads, "A * 7m which I am 
strongly incline [sic] to think has a nebulous atmosphere about 2 arcmin in 
diameter."  There is no trace of nebulosity on modern photographs, and the 
star has a normal A2 spectrum.  It is a spectroscopic binary, but that would 
not have been a factor in JH's observation.