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NGC6550

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


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

Historic Information


Discoverer: Stephan
Year of discovery: 1882
Discovery aperture: 31.0

Observational


Summary description: vF, pS, R, sev F st inv, near m 361
Sub-type: Sbc

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 6550 = NGC 6549 is not NGC 6548 as we have long supposed. Thanks to Malcolm Thomson and Steve Gottlieb for first directing my attention to this puzzling triplet of numbers, and to Christopher Watson for questioning the inconsistency in my earlier "untangling" of the problem. See NGC 6548 for the full story.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 6550 See observing notes for NGC 6549.