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NGC6557

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 18:21:24.7
Declination: -76:34:58
Constellation: OCT
Visual Magnitude: 12.9

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1835
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: vF, vS, R, glbM
Sub-type: S0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6557

24" (4/11/08 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): at 260x appeared moderately bright, elongated 3:2 WSW-ENE, 1.0'x0.7', brighter core.  Located 14' E of mag 7.1 HD 15844 and 8.6' W of a 25" pair of mag 10.4/12.5 stars.