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NGC6216

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 16:49:23.5
Declination: -44:43:53
Constellation: SCO
Visual Magnitude: 10.1

Historic Information

Discoverer: Dunlop
Year of discovery: 1826
Discovery aperture: 9.0

Observational

Summary description: Cl, pS, pRi, pC, st 12…15
Sub-type: II2p

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 6216 is not NGC 6222, which see for more.  JH has one observation in which
he describes "... two appendages of sts, n and s, making together a long 
cluster."  These are easy to see on the DSS, and change only the diameter of
the cluster, not its position.  Proper motions and photometry will tell us if
they are in fact part of the cluster.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6216

17.5" (7/4/86): faint, fairly small, ~3' diameter, roundish.  About a dozen faint stars are visible over haze at low power.