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NGC6885
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 20:11:58.0
Declination: +26:29:0
Constellation: VUL
Visual Magnitude: 8.1
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1784
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: Cl, vB, vL, Ri, lC, st 6…11
Sub-type: III2p
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 6885 is probably also NGC 6882, which see.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6885
17.5" (9/7/91): about 80 stars mag 6-13 in 15' triangular group, bright. Includes the bright star 20 Vulpeculae (V = 5.9) surrounded by seven very faint stars in the SE corner of the cluster. Weak in the center of the triangle except for about 10 other stars. A wide bright pair is at the east vertex and a wide unequal double star is at the SW side. Most stars are located along the west side particularly at the NW corner (this subgroup is catalogued as NGC 6882, although it may refer to the entire scattered group).
8" (8/23/84): about 50 stars at 100x, triangular-shaped, large, scattered, includes 20 Vulpeculae (V = 5.9). NGC 6882 is superimposed 5' N.