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NGC6747

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 18:55:21.5
Declination: +72:46:20
Constellation: DRA
Visual Magnitude: 14.1

Historic Information

Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 16.0

Observational

Summary description: eeF, v diffic, pB st sf
Sub-type: E2

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6747

17.5" (7/9/88): very faint, very small, round, bright core.  The galaxy is located SW of a 1.6' string of four mag 14 stars oriented SW-NE, the closest being 1.0' NE.  A brighter mag 10 star is 3.1' SE.