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NGC6692
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 18:41:41.5
Declination: +34:50:39
Constellation: LYR
Visual Magnitude: 13.2
Historic Information
Discoverer: Stephan
Year of discovery: 1883
Discovery aperture: 31.0
Observational
Summary description: vF, vS, irr E, sev vF st inv
Sub-type: E-S0
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 6692 is a close double galaxy (the separation is just 7.5 arcsec), or
perhaps a single object with a faint dust lane. It presents us with just a
single overexposed blob on the first Palomar Sky Survey red plate. On the
blue POSS1 plate, a faint dust lane apparently crosses the nucleus, so this
object may be close to the end state of the "hamburger" galaxies formed by the
merging of two objects.
On the other hand, the object is clearly resolved into a pair in the 2MASS
images, and Marzke et al (AJ 112, 1083, 1996) have separate velocities for
both components. The two objects are also clearly separated on all of the
DSS2 images.
This may also be NGC 6693, which see.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6692
17.5" (7/5/86): fairly faint, small, round, weak concentration, slightly elongated ~E-W. A bright double star (·2372 = 6.4/8.1 at 25") is 8' SE.