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===== NGC 6360. As with NGC 6335 (which see) there is no nebulosity making up this "object." Instead, JH saw the bright background of the Milky Way broken up into many patches of nebulous light by the dark nebulae lacing the area with dust. The position I've adopted for NGC 6360 is about a minute of time west and 7-8 arcmin north of JH's position (like N6335, in an area pretty well covered by dust). This is the brightest cloud of stars in the area, approximately 12 arcmin across. JH's full description reads, "A portion of the milky way which is decidedly nebulous, and by no means rich in L stars. The nebula is in patches of very great extent." This last comment makes it clear that this particular cloud is not the only one he saw in the area, and that a position with fairly low precision will be good enough to locate it.

===== NGC 6360 17.5" (8/2/97): I'm not certain of the identification but the most noticeable object near Herschel's position in the 100x field is an elongated group of a dozen stars in a 8' string oriented NW-SE, which is just north of mag 7.5 SAO 185358 and ~15' NW of the NGC position. There is a second mag 7.5 star 6' further NW and perhaps the two bright stars draw attention to this weak grouping but the patchy Milky Way background is also locally brighter here and immediate east of the group. There was nothing of note at JH's position. This object is just a Milky Way region as noted in ESO.