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NGC6100

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 16:16:52.3
Declination: +0:50:28
Constellation: SER
Visual Magnitude: 13.0

Historic Information


Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 16.0

Observational


Summary description: eeF, vS, eeF * close p
Sub-type: S0-a

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 6100 17.5" (6/11/88): faint, very small, slightly elongated NW-SE, stellar nucleus. A mag 15 star is at the east end. A wide unequal double star is 1.5' NW consisting of a mag 9.5/13 pair at 30" separation.