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NGC6122

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 16:20:9.4
Declination: +37:47:55
Constellation: CRB
Visual Magnitude: 14.6

Historic Information

Discoverer: Bigourdan
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 12.4

Observational

Summary description: vF, R, no N
Sub-type: S0

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 6122.  Bigourdan's description -- "vF, R, no N" -- for this galaxy is 
hardly appropriate.  The object may be very faint, but it is nearly edge-on, 
and has a very bright nucleus.  His position -- with the minutes of 
declination corrected in the IC2 Notes -- falls within 5 arcsec of the object.
There can be no doubt about the identity.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6122

17.5" (6/27/87): extremely faint, averted only, very small, round.  Third and faintest of three in a group and located 4.6' ENE of NGC 6120 and 5.5' E of NGC 6119.