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NGC6088
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 16:10:44.1
Declination: +57:27:43
Constellation: DRA
Visual Magnitude: 15.0
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1789
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: vF, vS, lE
Sub-type: E-S0
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6088
24" (6/28/14): at 375x appeared faint, fairly small, elongated 5:3 NW-SE, ~25"x15", weak concentration with no defined core or nucleus. Forms a very close double with MCG +10-23-030 = PGC 57384 at the southeast edge [22" between centers]. The companion was seen as an extremely faint glow, very small, ~12" diameter. In moments of good seeing, it was barely detached from NGC 6088. The two components form a physical pair at roughly 245 million l.y.
17.5" (6/15/91): very faint, small, elongated 2:1 NW-SE, weak concentration. Located 6.6' E of mag 8.6 SAO 29827. This is a double system on the POSS, although in the observation the two components were not individually resolved.