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NGC6353
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 17:21:12.4
Declination: +15:41:18
Constellation: HER
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Lohse
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 15.5
Observational
Summary description: pB, pS, 3 S st inv, * 10 nf 1'
Sub-type: *3
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 6353 is a close group of 5 stars found by J. G. Lohse. Like most other of
the "nebulae" found by Lohse, this, on closer examination, turns out to have
no nebulosity associated with it. Lohse did see three of the stars involved,
and also noted the 10th magnitude star just an arcminute to the northeast.
His position is good.
Since this is so obviously Lohse's object, I'm a bit puzzled by the RNGC's
saying simply "Not found." This must be another consequence of the speed at
which RNGC was done.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6353
18" (6/7/08): at 63x visible as a small, hazy knot probably less than 15" in diameter. Increasing the magnification to 260x resolved the clump into a trio of mag 14.5 stars packed into a tight 10". A 4th member is just off the south side. Located 0.9' SSW of a mag 9.8 star.