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NGC6592

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 18:9:50.6
Declination: +61:25:21
Constellation: DRA
Visual Magnitude: 14.4

Historic Information

Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1885
Discovery aperture: 16.0

Observational

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

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 6592.  Swift's position is not very good, but he notes "nearly between 2
stars."  Given that he was working with a large field, that comment pins down
the galaxy.  See NGC 6607 for more on the field.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6592

24" (7/19/12): fairly faint, small, round, 20" diameter, small brighter core.  A mag 12.3 star lies 1.7' W.  First in a group of 8 NGC galaxies (all discovered by Swift) and one IC.

17.5" (6/11/88): very faint, very small, round, bright core.  An extremely faint star is possibly at the west edge.  First in a group of at least 7 extremely faint galaxies.