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NGC6055
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 16:5:32.7
Declination: +18:9:34
Constellation: HER
Visual Magnitude: 13.7
Historic Information
Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 16.0
Observational
Summary description: eeF, pS, R, v diffic
Sub-type: SB0
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 6055. See NGC 6057.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6055
18" (7/13/07): very faint, very small, round, 15" diameter, very small or stellar nucleus. Forms a pair with brighter NGC 6057 just 1.7' WSW in the northern part of the Hercules Galaxy Cluster.
17.5" (6/14/96): extremely faint, very small, round, 20" diameter, low even surface brightness. Situated in the northeast portion of AGC 2151 1.7' ENE of brighter NGC 6057. Several faint galaxies lie northeast.
17.5" (5/28/89): extremely faint and small, round. Forms a close pair with NGC 6057 1.7' WSW in the northern region of AGC 2151.