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NGC6603

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 18:18:24.0
Declination: -18:24:24
Constellation: SGR
Visual Magnitude: 11.1

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1830
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: !, Cl, vRi, vmC, R, st 15 (M Way)
Sub-type: I1r

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 6603, a relatively small and faint cluster, is not M 24.  This was noted
by JH whose GC comment is included in the NGC Notes.  The Messier object is 
actually IC 4715, which see for more.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6603

13.1" (8/17/85): excellent resolution into 30-50 faint stars including a string oriented NW-SE running through the center.  The outline forms an arrowhead shape pointing to the east.  Situated in the northeast corner of M24 in a glorious region of the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud!  Located 4' N of mag 8 SAO 161294.  The dark nebula B93 lies ~30' NW.

17.5" (7/4/86): between 50 and 70 stars are resolved, extremely dense.