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NGC6549

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 18:5:49.4
Declination: +18:32:16
Constellation: HER
Visual Magnitude: 13.8

Historic Information

Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 48.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, pL, iR, near III 555
Sub-type: Sbc

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 6549 = NGC 6550, which see.  Also see NGC 6548 for the full story.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6549

17.5" (7/1/89): faint, fairly small, very elongated 3:1 SW-NE, low even surface brightness.  A very faint mag 16 star is involved.  Forms a pair with NGC 6548 3.7' NE.