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NGC6738

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 19:1:20.0
Declination: +11:36:54
Constellation: AQL
Visual Magnitude: 8.3

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1829
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: Cl, P, lC
Sub-type: *Grp

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 6738, found by JH, is an optical alignment of a couple of dozen bright 
stars seen through varying amounts of dust.  It is not a real cluster.  Boeche
et al (A&A, 406, 893, 2003) have done a thorough photometric, astrometric, and
spectroscopic study of the field and have not been able to find a real cluster
here.  There are undoubtedly many other such clusters in the catalogues.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6738

17.5" (7/20/90): at 82x, 125 stars are visible.  This cluster is bright and very large but scattered.  Located between a mag 7.5 star and a mag 8 star with a 30' separation N-S. A nice string of fairly bright stars is between these two bright stars.  Most of the cluster is west of this string but also a faint stream of stars is just following.