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Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SDSS / NOAO

Abell 2199 is a galaxy cluster in the Abell catalogue featuring a brightest cluster galaxy NGC 6166, a cD galaxy. Abell 2199, located in the Hercules constellation, is the definition of a Bautz-Morgan type I cluster due to NGC 6166.