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NGC6135

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 16:14:24.9
Declination: +64:59:0
Constellation: DRA
Visual Magnitude: 14.2

Historic Information


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

Observational


Summary description: vF, vS, mE, 2 st nr
Sub-type: S

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 6135 may be CGCG 320-015. The bright central part of the galaxy fits Swift's description, and there are two stars near it. However, the position is 4.4 minutes of time and 5 arcmin off, so I am not convinced that this is the correct object. There are no galaxies at reasonable digit errors (one degree, ten minutes, and one hour of time). The double star that Wolfgang chose is probably too faint to be Swift's object. Since I don't see anything else in the area that might be Swift's nebula, I've put the CGCG object in the Table with a question mark.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 6135 18" (7/30/08): fairly faint, moderately large, elongated nearly 3:1 SW-NE, 0.9'x0.35', broad concentration. A mag 14 star is just off the west edge [30" from the center]. The identification of this galaxy with NGC 6135 is very uncertain as it differs quite a bit from Swift's position.