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NGC6564

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 18:9:2.3
Declination: +17:23:40
Constellation: HER
Visual Magnitude:

Historic Information


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

Observational


Summary description: eF, vS
Sub-type: *3

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 6564 is perhaps a triple star 1.5 seconds preceding and 1.5 arcmin south of Marth's position. There is no galaxy near that he might have seen, and the triple might resemble a nebula with Lassell's 48-inch. Marth found two other galaxies the same night (N6375 and N6379); the mean offset of their positions from Marth's is in the same direction and about the same size (1 second of time and 1 arcmin) as those for the triple. All in all, this amounts only to circumstantial evidence, and there are other asterisms in the area that might be more convincingly nebulous at the eyepiece. So, I've put colons on the positions for the stars.