NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort
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NGC6901
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 20:22:21.6
Declination: +6:25:47
Constellation: AQL
Visual Magnitude: 13.7
Historic Information
Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1863
Discovery aperture: 48.0
Observational
Summary description: eF
Sub-type: SBab
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 6901 = IC 5000. Seen only once by Marth, his position, correctly copied
into the NGC, is off. This misled Bigourdan to measure a nearby star which he
took to be N6901, and to rediscover Marth's galaxy. Thus, it got a second
number, IC 5000 (which see). There is only one galaxy in the area, however,
and Marth's and Bigourdan's descriptions are near enough that they undoubtedly
refer to the same object.
My supposition in RC2 that the galaxy is also = IC 1316 is, however,
incorrect. IC 1316 (which see) was another of Bigourdan's discoveries, which
he "observed" twice in different places on the same nights on which he also
saw N6901. It is, in fact, non-existent.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6901
17.5" (7/20/90): faint, fairly small, oval 2:1 WSW-ENE, overall diffuse with a low even surface brightness. A mag 13 star is 30" off the NW side and 1.4' from the center. NGC 6906 is located 18' E. Similar notes on 6/20/87.