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NGC6078
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 16:12:5.4
Declination: +14:12:34
Constellation: HER
Visual Magnitude: 15.2
Historic Information
Discoverer: Stephan
Year of discovery: 1876
Discovery aperture: 31.0
Observational
Summary description: eF, vS, R, bM
Sub-type: E0
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6078
24" (7/24/14): moderately bright, fairly small, round, 30" diameter, increases to a very small bright core and down to a stellar nucleus. This is dominant component of a very close pair with MCG +02-41-018 attached to the south-southeast side, just 25" between centers! The companion appeared faint, very small, round, 12" diameter, occasional stellar nucleus. The pair was just resolved at 260x. NGC 6074, another double system, lies 12' WNW.
17.5": fairly faint, small, round, small bright core, substellar nucleus. Two mag 14-15 stars are 1.1' WNW and 1.3' NNW of center. Located 5.9' SE of mag 9.3 SAO 101996. NGC 6074 is 12' WNW.