Open cluster · constellation Sco
NGC 6178
NGC 6178MWSC 2428
Catalogue data
- Right ascension
- 16h 35m 47.2s
- Declination
- -45° 38' 37"
- Size
- 6.9′
- Position angle
- not available
- Magnitude
- 7.2 (V)
- Surface brightness
- 20.02 mag/arcsec²(derived)
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Suggested techniques
- RGB, OSC
- Data source
- OpenNGC
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