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NGC6789
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 19:16:41.7
Declination: +63:58:19
Constellation: DRA
Visual Magnitude: 13.2
Historic Information
Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1883
Discovery aperture: 16.0
Observational
Summary description: eeF, pL, R, v diffic
Sub-type: Im
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6789
17.5" (8/13/88): fairly faint, fairly small, round, broad concentration. Appears fainter than CGCG mag =13.7.
NGC 6789 is the nearest blue compact dwarf galaxy and resides at a distance of 2.1 Mpc (close to the Local Group).