Editing Seyfert's Sextet (section)

==Discovery==
[[France|French]] astronomer [[Édouard Stephan]] discovered [[NGC 6027]] on 20 March 1882, but he was unable to resolve the individual galaxies in the group.<ref name="selig">{{cite web | url = https://cseligman.com/text/atlas/ngc60.htm#6027 | title = New General Catalogue Objects: NGC{{nbsp}}6027 | last = Seligman | first = Courtney | website = Celestial Atlas | access-date = 28 August 2024 }}</ref> The group members were discovered by [[Carl Keenan Seyfert]] using photographic plates made at the [[Barnard Observatory (Vanderbilt)|Barnard Observatory]] of [[Vanderbilt University]].  When these results were first published in 1951, this group was the most compact group ever identified.<ref name="bajajaetal1984">{{cite journal
  | author=C. K. Seyfert
  | title=A Dense Group of Galaxies in Serpens
  | journal=[[Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific]]
  | year=1951
  | volume=371
  | issue=371
 | pages=72–75
  | bibcode=1951PASP...63...72S
  | doi=10.1086/126319| doi-access=free
  }}</ref>