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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

===== 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.