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NGC6678
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 18:30:39.7
Declination: +67:59:12
Constellation: DRA
Visual Magnitude: 12.7
Historic Information
Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1885
Discovery aperture: 16.0
Observational
Summary description: pF, pS, R
Sub-type: SBab/P
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 6678 = NGC 6667 (which is also = NGC 6668, which see). IC 4762 = Big 332
is a double star at exactly the location given by Bigourdan. Until I found
that it was a double star, I thought that it might be NGC 6678, found by Swift
(it is No. 99 in his first list), and with an identical declination. However,
I'm more inclined to believe that N6678 is the same as NGC 6667 (see NGC 6668
for more discussion); this galaxy is brighter than the double star, and its
inner regions might be taken as a "pF, pS, R" nebula. Howe could not find
this, either, but suggested no alternative identification for it.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6678
See observing notes for NGC 6667.