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NGC6141

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 16:23:6.3
Declination: +40:51:30
Constellation: HER
Visual Magnitude: 14.9

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: vF, pS, no Nucl
Sub-type: S?

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 6141 is a faint galaxy at Bigourdan's measured offset.  The NGC position,
correctly copied from the Comptes Rendus article, is 3 arcmin to the south.
It may result from an inaccurate estimated position for the comparison star.

This might also be IC 4606 (which see), but its position is well off that of
the object that Finlay saw.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6141

17.5" (7/18/01): very faint, very small, slightly elongated 25"x20".  With direct vision contains a fairly faint quasi-stellar nucleus.  Since this galaxy is not in the MCG or CGCG I expected the observation to be more difficult.  A wide pair of mag 11/12 stars lies 3.5' NE and a mag 14.5 star is 1.2' N.  The RNGC incorrectly identifies NGC 6147 = MCG +07-34-023 as NGC 6141.  Member of AGC 2197.