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NGC6202
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 16:43:23.2
Declination: +61:59:1
Constellation: DRA
Visual Magnitude: 13.1
Historic Information
Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 16.0
Observational
Summary description: eeF, pS, * f
Sub-type: S/P
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 6202 may be the same galaxy as NGC 6226. The description fits, there is a
star near following, and the declinations are the same. The problem, of
course, is the seven minute RA difference. This would not be the only large
RA error in Swift's lists, of course, but it still prevents a positive
identification.
All in all, 9 July 1886 was not a good night for Lewis Swift. Of the three
nebulae he found that night, we can now pretty surely identify only N6170
(which see). N6135 (which also see) and N6202 are far enough from Swift's
positions that we will probably never know for sure which nebulae Swift
actually saw.