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NGC6151

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 16:38:24.1
Declination: -73:15:7
Constellation: APS
Visual Magnitude:

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1835
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: vF, vS * 9 nr
Sub-type: *Grp

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 6151 is an asterism of 8-10 faint stars at JH's position, though he calls
it simply "vF and S".  It is positively identified by his comment that it "... 
is pointed to by 2 small stars 9m and 14m; the *9m is the only one of that 
magnitude within 6 arcmin" (his 9th magnitude star is actually a double).  ESO 
mistakenly chose a very faint galaxy well east of JH's position, which is not 
only very good, but was copied correctly into the NGC.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6151

18" (4/6/16 - Coonabarabran, 139x and 236x): at 139x, this asterism (very small group of faint stars) appeared fairly faint grainy patch, less than 1' in diameter.  At 236x, two or three mag 14.5-15 stars were occasionally resolved.  Situated 2.5' WSW of a mag 11 star and nearly collinear with a closer mag 13 star.