NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort
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NGC6482
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 17:51:48.7
Declination: +23:4:22
Constellation: HER
Visual Magnitude: 11.5
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1830
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: ! vF, S, R, vsvmbMvSRN
Sub-type: E1
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6482
17.5" (7/1/89): fairly bright, small, very bright stellar nucleus, small halo WSW-ENE. Forms the southern vertex of an isosceles triangle with two mag 10 stars 2.4' NW and 2.5' NE.
13.1" (7/5/83): fairly bright, very small, compact, substellar or stellar nucleus, surrounded by a faint halo with averted. Unusually bright nucleus for a small galaxy. Located in a rich star field.
NGC 6482 is the nearest "Fossil Group" -- the end-product of extensive merging of a once normal group, leaving a massive central galaxy that dominates the luminosity of a X-ray luminous group (delta Rmag ³ 2.0 with next brightest group member).