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NGC6359

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 17:17:53.0
Declination: +61:46:51
Constellation: DRA
Visual Magnitude: 12.6

Historic Information

Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1861
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational

Summary description: pB, S, R, bMN = * 12
Sub-type: E-S0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6359

24" (6/28/16): moderately bright, fairly small, slightly elongated NNW-SSE, 40"x30", strong concentration, high surface brightness.  A mag 10 star is 2.8' N.  Located 9' WNW of mag 7.7 HD 157425.

17.5" (6/18/88): fairly faint, fairly small, very bright core, stellar nucleus, faint oval halo NNW-SSE.  Located 2.8' S of mag 9.3 SAO 17423.  Forms a pair with UGC 10796 11' NW.