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NGC6740

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 19:0:50.5
Declination: +28:46:16
Constellation: LYR
Visual Magnitude: 13.9

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: eeF, S
Sub-type: Sb

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6740

17.5" (7/15/93): very faint, very small, round, 30" diameter, low surface brightness, weak concentration.  Located within a 8' string of stars oriented SW-NE near the intersection point with another string which is perpendicular.  Situated within an extremely rich Milky Way field!  Not identified as NGC 6740 in UGC or MCG.