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NGC6710

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 18:50:34.0
Declination: +26:50:19
Constellation: LYR
Visual Magnitude: 13.1

Historic Information

Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 48.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, S, R, bM
Sub-type: S0-a

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6710

13.1" (7/20/85): fairly faint, broad concentration, elongated SW-NE, possible faint stellar nucleus.  A mag 11 star is 1.6' SSE of center.  Located 26' NNE of ·2406 = 6.9/10.9 at 5" in a rich star field.