John Herschel discovered NGC 6000 = h3614 on 8 May 1834 and recorded "vF; S; R; sbM." His single position (corrected by 10 sec of time in the errata page to the CGH catalogue) is accurate.

400/500mm - 17.5" (4/7/89): fairly faint, small, very elongated NNW-SSE. A mag 13 star is 1' NW. Located 3.4' NE of mag 9 SAO 183830. This galaxy is the brightest of the very few in Scorpius.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb