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NGC6499
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 17:55:20.0
Declination: +18:21:34
Constellation: HER
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 48.0
Observational
Summary description: S D * in neb
Sub-type: *2
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 6499 is a close double star. Discovered by Marth, he marked it
"verified" in his list, so he saw it as nebulous at least twice. When the
object was photographed at Heidelberg and Lick, the observers there found only
a double star without nebulosity. That is how it appears today on the Palomar
Surveys. Another faint star and 2-3 very faint stars just to the west may
have enhanced the appearance of nebulosity at the eyepiece.