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NGC6743
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 19:1:26.7
Declination: +29:17:14
Constellation: LYR
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1828
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: Cl, pL, P, st 11…12
Sub-type: *Grp
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 6743. JH describes this as "A pL, poor cl of stars forming irreg groups
or patches, 11 ... 12 m; diam = 8'." About an arcminute preceding his
position are three pretty bright stars and roughly 30 fainter ones scattered
over an area about 8 - 10 arcmin across. This is doubtless the group that JH
saw.
As with many of these apparent clusterings, it may not be a real cluster (see
e.g. NGC 6738). It will take astrometric, spectroscopic, and photometric
studies to determine whether the stars are neighbors in space.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6743
17.5" (8/4/94): about 35 stars in a 6' diameter group centered on a bright wide double star h1361 = 8.3/10.6 at 18". The boxy outline stands out reasonably well at 100x. There are no dense spots and the group appears fully resolved. A mag 10 star is at the NW end 4' from h1361.