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NGC6915

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 20:27:46.0
Declination: -3:4:36
Constellation: AQL
Visual Magnitude: 12.2

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: pB, S, R
Sub-type: Sab

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6915

17.5" (7/16/88): moderately bright faint, small, slightly elongated WSW-ENE, large brighter core with a small faint halo.  Bracketed by two mag 13 stars 1.2' SW and 1.5' N of center.  An extremely faint mag 15.5 star is at the NE edge.