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NGC6617
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 18:14:2.9
Declination: +61:19:10
Constellation: DRA
Visual Magnitude: 14.6
Historic Information
Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1885
Discovery aperture: 16.0
Observational
Summary description: eeF, pL, R, v diffic
Sub-type: Scd
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 6617. Swift not only describes this as the largest, faintest, and most
difficult of the eight objects he found in the area, he also says that it is
"in [a] vacancy." While there are faint stars nearby, the ones he would
have noticed are far enough away that the object does indeed appear to be
pretty isolated. See NGC 6607 for more on this field.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6617
24" (7/19/12): very faint, fairly small, slightly elongated ~E-W, ~22"x18", low even surface brightness. Based on my size estimate, I missed the extremely low surface brightness halo with a ~1' diameter. Located 11' E of NGC 6609 and last in a group of 8 faint NGC galaxies.
17.5" (6/11/88): faint, very small, round, bright core. Last in a group of 7 faint galaxies. Located 12' E of the NGC 6607/NGC 6608 pair.