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NGC6596
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 18:17:33.0
Declination: -16:39:0
Constellation: SGR
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1786
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: Cl, lC
Sub-type: III2m
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6596
17.5" (8/10/91): about two dozen stars in a 5' diameter. Unusual arrangement as the stars form a perfect ellipse outline elongated N-S. The brightest mag 10.5 star is at the north end. A small group is to the southeast of the mag 10.5 star. The ellipse is only broken on the east side and the center is void of stars. Two nice faint double stars are on the northwest side. Just barely stands out in a very rich field with many bright stars.