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NGC6734

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 19:7:14.4
Declination: -65:27:39
Constellation: PAV
Visual Magnitude: 12.7

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: vF, S, R, glbM, p of 2
Sub-type: E-S0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6734

30" (11/3/10 - Coonabarabran, 264x): brighter and slightly larger of a pair with NGC 6736 situated 2.5' NE.  Moderately bright and large, elongated 4:3 SW-NE, 0.8'x0.6', small bright core.  Located 3.8' SE of a mag 10.4 star and 11' WNW of mag 7.5 HD 177345.  The large galaxy NGC 6744 lies 1.6 degrees NNE.