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NGC6108

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 16:17:25.5
Declination: +35:8:9
Constellation: CRB
Visual Magnitude: 14.4

Historic Information


Discoverer: Stephan
Year of discovery: 1880
Discovery aperture: 31.0

Observational


Summary description: eF, vS, R, lbM
Sub-type: SBab

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 6108 18" (7/13/07): fairly faint, fairly small, round, 25" diameter. A 15th magnitude star is just off the WSW edge, 0.6' from center. PGC 57737 lies 2' E. 17.5" (5/10/86): fairly faint, fairly small, slightly elongated. A mag 15 star is at the WSW edge 34" from center. This is one of the largest galaxies in the NGC 6107 cluster. NGC 6110 lies 4.7' SW and PGC 57737 is 2.0' E.