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NGC6314

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 17:12:38.7
Declination: +23:16:14
Constellation: HER
Visual Magnitude: 13.0

Historic Information

Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1863
Discovery aperture: 48.0

Observational

Summary description: F, vS, R, bM
Sub-type: Sa

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6314

17.5": fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 2:1 N-S, small bright core, substellar nucleus.  Forms a pair with NGC 6315 3.3' SE.  NGC 6308 lies 11.2' NW.