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NGC6517
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 18:1:50.6
Declination: -8:57:30
Constellation: OPH
Visual Magnitude: 10.1
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1784
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: pB, pL, R, rr
Sub-type: IV
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6517
24" (7/30/16): at 260x, moderately bright, round, 2.5'-3' diameter, well concentrated with a brighter, round core that increases to the center. A little lively but no definite resolution. The cluster appeared clumpy at 432x but only a couple of star were at the edge of visibility. At 500x, the nucleus was very clumply several extremely faint stars started to resolve (V tip magnitude = 16.0).
17.5" (6/8/91): fairly faint, small, irregularly round, 2' diameter. The faint halo is slightly elongated SSW-NNE and increases to a small bright core. No resolution at 280x.
8" (5/21/82): faint, small, brighter core, no resolution.