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NGC6608
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 18:12:29.2
Declination: +61:17:55
Constellation: DRA
Visual Magnitude: 15.1
Historic Information
Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1883
Discovery aperture: 16.0
Observational
Summary description: vF, eS, R, vF * nr
Sub-type: Scd
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 6608. See NGC 6607.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6608
24" (7/19/12): at 375x momentarily glimpsed 3 or 4 times as an extremely thin ghostly streak, perhaps 20"x5". Verified, though, as this difficult galaxy popped out just west of the midpoint of two mag 11 and 11.5 stars oriented NW-SE with a separation of 5.5'. Located 2' SSW of NGC 6609 and 2.7' SE of NGC 6607. The identification of this faint edge-on with NGC 6608 is very uncertain, though, and is likely too faint to have been picked up by Swift with his 16" refractor. This galaxy is misidentified as NGC 6609 in MCG, RNGC and PGC.
17.5" (7/20/98): not found.