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NGC6601

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 18:11:44.2
Declination: +61:27:11
Constellation: DRA
Visual Magnitude: 14.7

Historic Information

Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1883
Discovery aperture: 16.0

Observational

Summary description: eF, pS, R
Sub-type: E-S0

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 6601.  Swift's note "Near end of a curve of stars" is accurate and
unambiguously identifies this galaxy.  See NGC 6607 for the reason this 
particular identification is so important.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6601

24" (7/19/12): fairly faint, small, elongated 5:3 SW-NE, ~20"x12", very small brighter nucleus.  A group of stars including two mag 9 and 10 lies 4' N.  Fourth of 9, including 8 NGC galaxies discovered by Lewis Swift.

17.5" (6/11/88): very faint, very small, round.  A mag 14 star is 1.1' W.  Fourth in a large group of extremely faint galaxies.