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NGC6958
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 20:48:42.6
Declination: -37:59:52
Constellation: MIC
Visual Magnitude: 11.4
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1834
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: B, cS, R, pgmbM, 4 st p
Sub-type: E-S0
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6958
17.5" (10/5/91): fairly faint, fairly small, gradually increases to a very small bright core. Forms the SE vertex of an equilateral triangle with a mag 11 star 2.5' WSW and a mag 10 star 2.8' NW. There are four stars total in this V-shaped asterism.
8" (7/24/82): faint, small, round, just nonstellar at low power. Located at the edge of a small "V" asterism of stars. Located 25' WSW of a mag 5.5 star.