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NGC6246

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 16:49:53.0
Declination: +55:32:34
Constellation: DRA
Visual Magnitude: 13.6

Historic Information

Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 16.0

Observational

Summary description: eF, S, R
Sub-type: SBb

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6246

17.5" (7/4/86): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 2:1 SW-NE, broad concentration.  Forms a pair with UGC 10584 = NGC 6246A 10' SSE.  This galaxy is incorrectly identified as NGC 6246A in the RNGC.

17.5" (6/19/88): faint, fairly small, elongated WSW-ENE.