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NGC6870
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 20:10:10.4
Declination: -48:17:12
Constellation: TEL
Visual Magnitude: 12.3
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1834
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: cF, cS, E 90°, gbM
Sub-type: Sab
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6870
18" (7/10/02 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): last in a trio with NGC 6868 6' SSW and ESO 233-035 7.5' W within the core of the Telescopium Group (ACO S851). At 128x it appeared moderately bright, very elongated 5:2 E-W, ~1.5'x0.6' with a bright core.
ESO 233-037 appeared fairly faint, small, elongated NW-SE, 0.5'x0.3' with a small bright core. Forms the NW vertex of a near equilateral triangle with NGC 6868 7' SE and NGC 6870 7.5' E. A mag 10.6 star lies 6' W.
8" (7/13/91 - Southern Baja): extremely faint, small, oval 2:1 WSW-ENE. Forms a pair with NGC 6868 6.2' SSW.