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NGC6180
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 16:30:33.9
Declination: +40:32:23
Constellation: HER
Visual Magnitude: 14.1
Historic Information
Discoverer: Stephan
Year of discovery: 1876
Discovery aperture: 31.0
Observational
Summary description: eF, vS, R, mbM
Sub-type: E?
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6180
18" (7/30/08): fairly faint to moderately bright, small, elongated 4:3 ~N-S, 30"x22", gradually increases to a very small bright core and faint stellar nucleus. Forms a close 1.7' pair with MCG +07-34-097 to the southeast.
MCG +07-34-097 appeared very faint, very small, round, 20", low even surface brightness. Forms a close 1.7' pair to the SE of brighter NGC 6180.
17.5" (5/23/87): faint, very small, round, bright core, stellar nucleus. A pair of mag 11/12 stars oriented E-W are 2.5' WSW and 3.7' WSW, respectively. Located on the east side of the core of AGC 2197.
17.5" (7/5/86): fairly faint, very small, round, stellar nucleus. Two stars preceding.