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NGC6881

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 20:10:52.5
Declination: +37:24:44
Constellation: CYG
Visual Magnitude: 13.9

Historic Information


Discoverer: Pickering
Year of discovery: 1881
Discovery aperture: 15.0

Observational


Summary description: planetary, stellar
Sub-type: PN

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 6881 13.1" (8/7/85): visible as a mag 13.5 "star" without a filter. Verified with OIII blinking and appears brighter than a mag 12 just 44" SE. Stellar at 144x. Located in a rich Milky Way field. Several bright stars are near including mag 8.7 SAO 69561 3.6' NNW, mag 8.5 SAO 69557 4.2' NW and mag 9.5 SAO 69565 3.4' SSE.