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NGC6578
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 18:16:16.5
Declination: -20:27:0
Constellation: SGR
Visual Magnitude: 12.9
Historic Information
Discoverer: Pickering
Year of discovery: 1882
Discovery aperture: 15.0
Observational
Summary description: planetary, stellar = 13 mag
Sub-type: PN
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6578
17.5" (8/17/01): Situated within a clump of stars at 100x and appeared stellar at low power. At 500x, a small unevenly lit 4" disc was easily visible close ENE [21"] of a mag 11 star. An extremely faint star is just off the SE edge and an evenly matched 20" pair of mag 11 stars lie 1' SE. Located 7' NW of a mag 7 star.
13" (6/18/85): just non-stellar at 220x, estimate V = 13.0, 5" diameter. Suspected nebulous at 144x, confirmed by UHC blinking. Located 7.2' NW of mag 7.1 SAO 186575 (17 Sagittarii?). Forms a close double with a mag 11 star 21" WSW and a pair of mag 11 stars is 1' SE. This PN is plotted incorrectly on the Sky Atlas 2000.0.