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NGC6080
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 16:12:58.5
Declination: +2:10:40
Constellation: SER
Visual Magnitude: 13.6
Historic Information
Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1887
Discovery aperture: 16.0
Observational
Summary description: pB, pS, R, mbM
Sub-type: Sab
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6080
24" (6/12/15): at 225x and 375x; fairly faint to moderately bright, small, slightly elongated, ~24"x18", very small bright nucleus. Forms a very close double system with PGC 93131 at the northeast edge of the halo, just 18" between centers! The physical companion (identified in NED as NGC 6080 NED02) appeared very faint to faint, extremely small, quasi-stellar (~6" diameter)
17.5" (6/11/88): fairly faint, small, slightly elongated, stellar nucleus. Forms a double system with a faint companion (PGC 93131) attached at the north end. PGC 93131 is extremely faint and small, appears as a mag 15-15.5 "star" attached at the northeast end of NGC 6080.