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NGC6182

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 16:29:33.9
Declination: +55:31:4
Constellation: DRA
Visual Magnitude: 13.5

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1789
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: vF, vS, iR
Sub-type: Sa

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6182

17.5" (6/20/87): fairly faint, fairly small, small bright core, thin fainter extensions NW-SE.  Located 3.0' SE of mag 9 SAO 29964.  Forms a pair with CGCG 276-023 2.1' SSW.  The companion appeared very faint, very small, elongated ~E-W, brighter core, visible continuously with averted at 222x.

17.5" (6/18/88): faint, small, small bright core, elongated NW-SE.