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NGC6623
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 18:19:42.9
Declination: +23:42:34
Constellation: HER
Visual Magnitude: 13.0
Historic Information
Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 48.0
Observational
Summary description: pF, S, R, bM
Sub-type: E1
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6623
24" (7/15/15): fairly faint to moderately bright, moderately large, roundish, ~0.9' diameter, sharply concentrated with a very small bright nucleus. A mag 14 star is 45" NE of center. Resides in a rich star field 4.1' NW of mag 8.8 HD 168670. NGC 6619 lies 11' SW.
MCG +04-43-027 = PGC 61744 is at the south edge of the halo [27" S of center]. At 375x it appeared as an extremely to very faint knot, round, 12" diameter.
17.5" (7/16/88): faint, fairly small, slightly elongated NW-SE, bright core, diffuse halo. Located 4.1' NW of mag 8.6 SAO 85932. Pair with NGC 6619 11.4' WSW.