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NGC6975

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 20:52:25.9
Declination: -5:46:17
Constellation: AQR
Visual Magnitude: 14.0

Historic Information


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

Observational


Summary description: vF, S, ? = m 427
Sub-type: Sbc

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 6975 = NGC 6976. Even Bigourdan, who "found" NGC 6975, admits that it is identical to N6976. Here is a free translation of his comment: "Does not exist. Because of an error of 180 degrees in the position angle estimate, Big 88 (= N6975) was thought to be new. It is identical to N6976." The RNGC is wrong. RC3 is also.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 6975 See observing notes for NGC 6976. The galaxy identified as NGC 6975 in the RNGC is MCG -01-53-014.