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NGC6323
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 17:13:17.9
Declination: +43:46:56
Constellation: HER
Visual Magnitude: 13.9
Historic Information
Discoverer: Stephan
Year of discovery: 1876
Discovery aperture: 31.0
Observational
Summary description: eF, vS, diffic
Sub-type: Sab
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6323
18" (7/27/03): faint, fairly small, very elongated 4:1 ~N-S, 0.6'x0.15'. Contains a small brighter core. A mag 13.5 star lies 1.9' NW. Second of 8 in the NGC 6329/6332 group. CGCG 225-070 lies 5.4' SSW. Located 10' ENE of mag 7.2 SAO 46565.
17.5" (8/1/89): very faint, small, very elongated 3:1 NNW-SSE, weak concentration. First of five in a group with NGC 6329 12' ESE and NGC 6327 11' SE.