NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

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NGC6616

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 18:17:41.0
Declination: +22:14:16
Constellation: HER
Visual Magnitude: 13.8

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: vF, eS, mE, 2 F st nr
Sub-type: Sab

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 6616.  Though Swift's RA is off by 24 seconds of time, Herbert Howe found
the correct galaxy and remeasured its position.  His correction is included in
IC2.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6616

17.5" (7/16/88): very faint, small, elongated SW-NE, broad concentration.  A mag 13 star is 1.1' W of center.