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NGC6347

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 17:19:54.6
Declination: +16:39:38
Constellation: HER
Visual Magnitude: 13.7

Historic Information

Discoverer: Safford
Year of discovery: 1866
Discovery aperture: 18.5

Observational

Summary description: eF, iR, dif
Sub-type: SBb

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 6347 = IC 1253, which see.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6347

17.5" (8/1/89): faint, fairly small, elongated NW-SE, low even surface brightness.  Three mag 14 stars in a line SW-NE are just off the NW edge and a mag 15.5 star is involved at the NW end 23" from center.