Maximum of the South June Aquilids meteor shower in the constellation Aquila on the 17th June, 2011. The shower is active from the 9th June to the 2nd July. ZHR=3.0 Velocity=38.6km/s Radiant: RA=19.5h/293° Dec=-4.9° During June 13-19, 1961, C. S. Nilsson (Adelaide, South Australia) detected...
NGC 6234 (also MCG 1-43-7 and PGC 59144) is a magnitude +14.4 elliptical galaxy located 438 million light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 121.92 cm (48 inch) speculum reflector at William Lassell's Tigné Point observ...
NGC 6296 (also IRAS 17062+0357, MCG 1-44-2, UGC 10719 and PGC 59690) is a magnitude +13.4 barred spiral galaxy located 310 million light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 121.92 cm (48 inch) speculum reflector at Willia...
NGC 6356 (also ESO 588-SC1 and GCL 62) is a magnitude +8.2 globular star cluster located 24,400 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus. The cluster was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) reflecting telescope at Datchet, Berkshire, on t...
NGC 6364 (also MCG 5-41-13, UGC 10835 and PGC 60228) is a magnitude +12.9 spiral galaxy located 316 million light-years away in the constellation Hercules. The galaxy was discovered by French astronomer Auguste Voigt using a 80 cm (31.5 inch) f/5.6 Foucault reflecting telescope at the Marseille O...
NGC 6392 (also ESO 70-12, IRAS 17379-6945 and PGC 60753) is a magnitude +11.6 spiral galaxy located 167 million light-years away in the constellation Apus. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope at the Cape of Go...
NGC 6696 (also MCG 10-26-47 and PGC 62215) is a magnitude +15.1 spiral galaxy located 354 million light-years away in the constellation Draco. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift using a 40.6 cm (16 inch) Alvan Clark and Sons refractor at the Warner Observatory, East Ave...
June Lyrids meteor shower (in constellation Lyra) Best seen from 0.2h - 2.1h ZHR=2.4 Local hour rate=1 Velocity=20.3km/s (very slow) Radiant: RA=18.8h/281° Dec=44.7° (J2000)
An aerolite of great size fell near St. Joseph Sunday morning. The residents were startled by a sharp, quick sound and a severe jarring of the earth. It was at first thought to be an earthquake, but a young farmer soon brought the intelligence that some great projectile had embedded itself in the woods...
On Wednesday (yesterday) morning [1859] the inhabitants of the towns of BoyIston and Redfield to this county, were startled by the occurrence of a most remarkable phenomena - the descent from the heavens of an immense meteoric mass. The body struck the earth between the hours of 8 and 4 A.M., with a cr...
At a meeting of the Society instituted for the purpose of preventing cruelty to animals, on the 16th day of June 1824, at Old Slaughter's Coffee House, St. Martin's Lane: T F Buxton Esqr, MP, in the Chair, It was resolved: That a committee be appointed to superintend the Publication of Tracts, Sermons...
NGC 5391 is a lost or non-existent object in the constellation Canes Venatici. The object was discovered by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift using a 40.6 cm (16 inch) Alvan Clark and Sons refractor at the Warner Observatory, East Avenue, Rochester, New York, on the 16th June 1884. Subsequent obs...
NGC 6712 (also GCL 103) is a magnitude +8.69 globular star cluster located 22,500 light-years away in the constellation Scutum. The cluster was probably discovered by French astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil on July 9, 1749 when investigating with a small refractor the Milky Way star cloud in Aquila...
NGC 6728 is a magnitude +11.4 asterism located in the constellation Scutum. The group of stars were discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Datchet, Berkshire, on the 16th June 1784. Right Ascension 18h 57m 31.4s, Declinati...
NGC 6664 (also OCL 68) is a magnitude +7.8 open star cluster located 4,900 light-years away in the constellation Scutum. The cluster was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Datchet, Berkshire, on the 16th June 1784. [spo...
