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NGC6444

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 17:49:35.1
Declination: -34:49:11
Constellation: SCO
Visual Magnitude:

Historic Information

Discoverer: Dunlop
Year of discovery: 1826
Discovery aperture: 9.0

Observational

Summary description: Cl, vL, vRi, st 12…13
Sub-type: III2m

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 6444 is definitely OCl-1023 = Ru 132 as noted in ESO and by Brian Skiff.
JH gives only an approximate position for the cluster, but calls it "A vfine
L, rich sc cl of sts 12..13..m."  The ESO position -- 40 seconds preceding
and 2.5 arcmin north of JH's -- is good.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6444

17.5" (7/8/94): about 50 stars in a 10' string oriented due E-W.  Stands out reasonably well in the field at 100x.  Very uniform in mag 12-13 stars over some unresolved haze.  A more ill defined branch of stars begins at the west end and trails NE.  An arc of stars begins at the east end and curls back west on the south side.  Located in the same low power field with globular NGC 6453 20' NE and 53' due west of the center of M7.