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NGC6287
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 17:5:9.4
Declination: -22:42:27
Constellation: OPH
Visual Magnitude: 9.3
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1784
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: globular, cB, L, R, gpmCM, rrr, st 16
Sub-type: VII
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6287
18" (7/24/06): this fairly faint 3' cluster was surprisingly partially resolved at 435x and 565x. At 565x the cluster was very lively and mottled with roughly 20 stars barely resolved over the disc (some popping in and out of visibility). The core was only weakly compressed. The cluster appeared on the verge of being well resolved with a number of extremely faint mag 16 stars sometimes momentarily sparkling and increasing the total to perhaps three dozen stars.
17.5" (6/8/91): fairly bright, irregular, 3' diameter, mottled but not resolved at 280x. The core is elongated SW-NE. Two very faint unresolved star lanes stream to the north and east from the core giving the appearance of a tail.