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NGC6344
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 17:17:18.1
Declination: +42:26:4
Constellation: HER
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Lohse
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 15.5
Observational
Summary description: F, S, R, * 12 nf, nr
Sub-type: *2
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 6344 is a double star at Lohse's position. In appearance, it matches
several other of the "nebulae" found by him with the 15.5-inch (e.g. NGC
5884, also a double star, which see), and is very close to his nominal
position. There is a faint galaxy -- the SDSS shows it to actually be a
"nest" of at least four galaxies -- about an arcminute to the north that has
been taken as N6344, but it is certainly too faint for Lohse to have seen.
Another coincidence of the field is the presence of Zwicky's cluster ZwCl
1715.5+4229 almost directly behind Lohse's stars; the quadruple system is
probably its brightest member.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6344
17.5" (8/1/89): this is a pair of mag 12/13 stars just 1' S of PGC 60004 (misidentified as NGC 6344 in the RNGC). PGC 60004 appeared extremely faint and small, round. Located 2.1' SW of mag 8 SAO 046612!