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NGC6906

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 20:23:34.0
Declination: +6:26:40
Constellation: AQL
Visual Magnitude: 12.3

Historic Information

Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1863
Discovery aperture: 48.0

Observational

Summary description: pF, pL, R
Sub-type: SBbc

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 6906 is not IC 5006, which see for the details.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6906

17.5" (6/20/87): moderately bright, moderately large, elongated SW-NE, small bright core.  NGC 6901= IC 1316 lies 18' W.  A mag 9.5 star lies 3.6' SW.

13" (7/27/84): fairly faint, fairly small, very small bright core, diffuse outer halo, elongated SW-NE.