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NGC6153

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 16:31:30.6
Declination: -40:15:11
Constellation: SCO
Visual Magnitude: 10.9

Historic Information

Discoverer: Copeland
Year of discovery: 1883
Discovery aperture: 6.1

Observational

Summary description: planetary, stellar
Sub-type: PN

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6153

13.1" (6/18/85): fairly bright, fairly small, almost round, picked up at 62x.  Striking location as forms the southern vertex of a small "kite" or cruciform asterism (rhombus) with two mag 10 stars 2.6' N and 2.7' NW and a mag 9.5 star 2.5' NE.  This planetary is very far south for a prominent planetary to be seen from northern California.