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NGC6874

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 20:7:48.0
Declination: +38:14:0
Constellation: CYG
Visual Magnitude:

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1792
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: Cl, P, lC
Sub-type: IV1m

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 6874.  WH found this on 15 Sept 1792, describing it as "A coarsly 
scattered cluster of large stars, of a right-angled triangular shape."  This
is exactly the configuration seen about 15 seconds preceding the NGC position
(from JH), and is the cluster that I've taken as the NGC object.  The 
tabulated position refers to the approximate center of the triangle.

JH's position, copied correctly into GC and NGC, refers to the 10th magnitude 
star at one apex of the triangle, east of the center.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6874

17.5" (8/25/95): large, fairly rich and uniform triangular group.  Consists of about 60 stars in a 10'x5' triangular region with the longer 10' base oriented NW-SE along the following side of the cluster.  The brightest mag 10 star lies at the east end and most stars are between mag 12-13.  Only stands out at low power due to large size.