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NGC6823
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 19:43:10.0
Declination: +23:18:0
Constellation: VUL
Visual Magnitude: 7.1
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1785
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: Cl, eRi, E, st 11…12
Sub-type: I3pn
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6823
17.5" (8/10/91): about 50 stars in the central 5' diameter, bright, moderately large, fairly rich. Includes four bright mag 9.5-11 stars in a tight group at the core of the cluster plus two or three very faint stars in a 20" diameter. Most of the stars form a distinctive 5' oval ring, elongated ~E-W. Emission nebulosity Sh 2-86 (misidentified as NGC 6820 in most sources) is entwined.