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NGC6168
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 16:31:21.3
Declination: +20:11:6
Constellation: HER
Visual Magnitude: 14.2
Historic Information
Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1884
Discovery aperture: 16.0
Observational
Summary description: eeF, mE, F * at p end, v diffic
Sub-type: Sd
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 6168 is probably CGCG 109-028 with a 1m 30s error in Swift's RA (the Dec
is close). He has a faint star at the preceding end of the galaxy, but the
star is actually at the following end. Because of these two problems, I'm not
completely convinced that this identity is the correct one, but there are no
other galaxies in the area that come as close to matching Swift's description
(copied exactly into the NGC). This is, by the way, the only nebula that
Swift found on the night of 21 May 1884, so we have no idea of any systematic
offset for the night.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6168
17.5": very faint, fairly small, very elongated WNW-ESE. A mag 14.5 star is attached at the east end 39" from center.