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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
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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.