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NGC6854

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 20:5:38.6
Declination: -54:22:30
Constellation: TEL
Visual Magnitude: 12.2

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1834
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: F, S, vlE, glbM
Sub-type: E/SB0

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 6854.  This is a double galaxy, though the second component has been 
sometimes mistaken as a superposed star -- it is extremely compact.  The
redshifts are within 200 km/sec, and the corona of the brighter object is
slightly distorted by the fainter.

JH noted only one nebula here, so the second is probably too faint and too
close to the first to have been seen.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6854

30" (11/5/10 - Coonabarabran, 264x): fairly bright, moderately large, elongated 3:2 NNW-SSE, 1.2'x0.8', broad concentration, brighter along the major axis.  A mag 14 star lies 1.4' NE and PGC 161899 lies 35" N of this star.  PGC 161899 very faint, extremely small, round, 6" diameter.