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NGC6211
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Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 16:41:27.6
Declination: +57:47:2
Constellation: DRA
Visual Magnitude: 12.6
Historic Information
Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1887
Discovery aperture: 16.0
Observational
Summary description: vF, pS, R, sp of 2
Sub-type: SB0
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 6211 and NGC 6213 are the southern-most two of a line of four galaxies
stretching southwest to northeast (the other two are CGCG 299-018 and -019,
not in NGC). Swift found these in June of 1887 and sent them directly to
Dreyer who included them in NGC from Swift's letters. Swift published the
discoveries a few years later in his 9th list. His RAs are 15-20 seconds of
time too small, but Dreyer included Bigourdan's corrections in the IC2 notes.
Bigourdan's published RAs are within two seconds for each object, and his
offsets, if re-reduced using a modern position for his reference star, would
agree with modern positions.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6211
18" (6/23/09): fairly bright, moderately large, elongated 5:4 SW-NE, 1.2'x1.0', well concentrated. First of four in a string of the galaxies to the NE (identical redshifts) with NGC 6213 2.2' NE.
17.5" (6/18/88): fairly faint, small, round, bright compact core.
17.5" (6/20/87): moderately bright, moderately large, almost round, strong bright core, stellar nucleus. Brightest in chain of four with NGC 6213 2.2' NE.