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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

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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

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NGC 6550

See observing notes for NGC 6549.