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NGC6722

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 19:3:40.1
Declination: -64:53:42
Constellation: PAV
Visual Magnitude: 12.5

Historic Information


Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1836
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational


Summary description: pF, S, E, glbM, 2 st 8 p
Sub-type: Sb

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 6722 30" (11/3/10 - Coonabarabran, 264x): fairly bright, very elongated 9:2 NNW-SSE, fairly large, 1.8'x0.4', contains a small brighter core within a bulging middle. Two stars are on the north end (one superimposed and the other barely off). A mag 11.8 star is 2' NW of center. Located 10' due east of mag 8.3 HD 175882 and 7' WNW of mag 7.6 HD 176021. These two bright stars are separated by 4' and a third mag 10.5 to the southeast is collinear.