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NGC6890

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 20:18:18.0
Declination: -44:48:23
Constellation: SGR
Visual Magnitude: 12.3

Historic Information


Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1834
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational


Summary description: pF, S, R, vglbM
Sub-type: SBb

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 6890 30" (10/10/15 - OzSky): at 303x; fairly bright, moderately large, elongated 3:2 or 4:3 NNW-SSE, ~1.2'x0.9', sharply concentrated with a well defined bright core that gradually increases to the center. Located 13' WSW of mag 8.2 HD 192960. 24" (9/15/12): at 175x appeared moderately bright and large, elongated 4:3 NNW-SSE, 1.2'x0.9', brighter core. The view was compromised by low altitude (less than 10¡ elevation), fairly poor seeing and sky glow near the horizon. A number of ESO galaxies are within 1¡ NW, though they were too faint to be seen in these conditions except for NGC 6878 50' NW. Possibly a member of the Telescopium Group.