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NGC6966

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 20:47:26.7
Declination: +0:22:5
Constellation: AQR
Visual Magnitude:

Historic Information

Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1865
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational

Summary description: eF, vS
Sub-type: *2

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 6966 is a double star.  It is credited in the NGC to d'Arrest 
(incorrectly) and Bigourdan who provides an accurate position for it.  d'A 
probably saw one of the brighter galaxies near NGC 6962 rather than this 
object.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6966

18" (8/1/05): this difficult double star appears as an extremely faint, sub-stellar object at 225x (only a few arcseconds in size) that was slightly elongated like an unresolved double.  At 323x it was occasionally resolved but it was easy to see how this might be assumed to be a nebulous object. Located 3.4' NE of NGC 6962 and at the midpoint of NGC 6962 and NGC 6967 3.2' further NE.