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NGC6051

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 16:4:56.6
Declination: +23:55:56
Constellation: SER
Visual Magnitude: 13.1

Historic Information


Discoverer: Stephan
Year of discovery: 1881
Discovery aperture: 31.0

Observational


Summary description: F, S, R, gbMN, * 10 sf
Sub-type: E3

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 6051 24" (7/23/14): fairly faint to moderately bright, fairly small, elongated 4:3 N-S, 0.6'x0.45', weak concentration. A mag 11.2 star is 0.7' SSE of center and a mag 16.7 star is 0.7' W of center. Brightest in a faint compact cluster (AWM 4) with 5 members within 3'! IC 4588 = PGC 57025 lies 2' SE and is very faint (B = 16.3), round, 10" diameter. PGC 57003, 2.9' NNW, is very faint (B = 16.4), round, 12" diameter. PGC 57010, 2' N, is extremely faint (B = 16.9), round, 10" diameter. PGC 57014, 2.3' NNE, is very faint (B = 16.2), elongated 3:1 WNW-ESE, 25"x8". PGC 140564, 1.2' WNW, is extremely difficult (B = 17.3), slightly elongated NW-SE, 12"x8". 17.5" (6/15/91): faint, fairly small, elongated 3:2 NNW-SSE, weak concentration. A mag 11 star is just off the SSE edge 44" from center.