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NGC6354
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 17:24:34.0
Declination: -38:32:30
Constellation: SCO
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Barnard
Year of discovery: 1884
Discovery aperture: 6.0
Observational
Summary description: eF, S
Sub-type: *4
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 6354 is a small group of four stars with two fainter stars also involved.
Barnard found it in 1884 while he was still in Tennessee, and has "three
equatorial pointings" from which he determined the position. His description
is appropriate: "It is a small and faint object with 6-inch (sic) telescope.
The light seems to be of an even tint."
Knox-Shaw, using the 30-inch Reynold's Reflector at Helwan, took at least one
plate of the area. He noted in Helwan Bulletin No. 9 (1912), "Four stars near
together; not a nebula."