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NGC6661

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 18:34:36.7
Declination: +22:54:33
Constellation: HER
Visual Magnitude: 12.1

Historic Information

Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 48.0

Observational

Summary description: F, vS, R, gbM
Sub-type: S0-a

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 6661 = NGC 6660, which see.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6661

17.5" (7/1/89): moderately bright, moderately large, bright core, elongated NW-SE.  Located just south of a shallow arc consisting of five mag 12-13 stars and just north of a line of four mag 11 stars oriented SW-NE.  Forms a pair with NGC 6658 9.7' WSW.