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NGC6950
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 20:41:10.5
Declination: +16:38:55
Constellation: DEL
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1784
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: Cl, P, vlC
Sub-type: *Grp
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 6950 looks like a good, if scattered, cluster on the POSS1 prints. It was
seen by both WH and JH, and their positions and descriptions agree. Still, no
one has included it in a cluster catalogue, and RNGC has it as not found. I
suspect, though, that it could be easily seen with a six- or eight-inch
telescope.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6950
17.5" (9/23/95): very scattered group of mag 9.5-13 stars in roughly a 10'-15' region. Barely stands out in the 20mm Nagler field and not worth noting as a cluster. There are no specific borders but the stars have the appearance of being aligned in strings or groups. Most prominent is an elongated group oriented WNW-ESE through the two brightest mag 9-10 stars (brightest star at 20 41 10.5 +16 38.9). A small line of three mag 13 stars is near the western end of the string. Appears to be a random grouping and listed as nonexistent in RNGC.