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NGC6585

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 18:12:21.9
Declination: +39:38:0
Constellation: HER
Visual Magnitude: 12.9

Historic Information

Discoverer: Swift E.
Year of discovery: 1887
Discovery aperture: 16.0

Observational

Summary description: eeF, S, eE, bet sev B st
Sub-type: Sbc

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6585

17.5" (8/1/89): fairly faint, fairly small, edge-on SW-NE, weak concentration.  Located within a group of 10 mag 10-12 stars including a mag 11 star 1.5' N and a mag 10 star 2.5' NE collinear with the major axis.