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NGC6973

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 20:52:6.0
Declination: -5:53:39
Constellation: AQR
Visual Magnitude: 15.6

Historic Information

Discoverer: Bigourdan
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 12.4

Observational

Summary description: vF, S, r
Sub-type: *

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 6973 and NGC 6980 are both stars near the NGC 6976/6977/6978 triplet.  
Bigourdan thought the stars slightly nebulous, so listed them among his 
"novae."  His positions are excellent and identify the stars exactly.