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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

===== 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

===== 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.