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NGC6705
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 18:51:5.0
Declination: -6:16:12
Constellation: SCT
Visual Magnitude: 5.8
Historic Information
Discoverer: Kirch
Year of discovery: 1681
Discovery aperture:
Observational
Summary description: !, Cl, vB, L, iR, Ri, *9, st 11…
Sub-type: I2r
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6705
13.1" (7/16/82): at 140x, several hundred stars mag 11-15 and a brighter mag 8 star (SAO 142695) in a 10' region form a remarkably rich cluster including some dense knots of stars. A starless vacuity is visible just west of center at medium power. Dark lanes appear to wind through the cluster at high power grouping the stars into chains. Several dark nebula are near including B108, B112, B318.
8": this is the most impressive open cluster with this aperture. Appears as an extremely rich carpet of faint stars and dense clumps in an arrowhead shape.