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NGC6263

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 16:56:43.1
Declination: +27:49:21
Constellation: HER
Visual Magnitude: 13.7

Historic Information

Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 48.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, vS, R
Sub-type: E0

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 6263 is not NGC 6138 (which see) as I had earlier supposed.  N6263 is an
innocent bystander, the victim of a misprint in M. Esmiol's Introduction to
his complete collection of Stephan's observations.  The story is under N6138.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6263

17.5" (7/1/89): very faint, extremely small, round.  A mag 13.5 star is just off the south edge 40" from center.  Located 2.6' S of a mag 9 star.  Second of 8 in the NGC 6269 group with NGC 6264 and NGC 6265 in the field 7.5' ENE and 10.2' ENE.