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NGC6594

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 18:10:5.6
Declination: +61:8:1
Constellation: DRA
Visual Magnitude: 14.5

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: vF, vS, R
Sub-type: S

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 6594.  As with NGC 6592, Swift's note about nearby stars "between a faint
and a more distant bright star" nails the identification.  The bright star is
SAO 17798.  See NGC 6607 for more about other objects in this field.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6594

24" (7/19/12): fairly faint, fairly small, oval 4:3 E-W, 24"x18".  Second in a group of 8 NGC galaxies (and one IC), with NGC 6597 8.7' ENE.  Mag 8.2 HD 167347 lies nearly between these two galaxies.

17.5" (6/11/88): extremely faint, very small, slightly elongated ~E-W.  Located 5.8' SW of mag 7.8 SAO 177948.  Second in a group with NGC 6597 8.7' ENE.