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NGC6984

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 20:57:54.2
Declination: -51:52:15
Constellation: IND
Visual Magnitude: 12.7

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1834
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: F, pL, vlE, vgbM, f of 2
Sub-type: SBc

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6984

30" (11/5/10 - Coonabarabran, 264x): brightest in a trio with NGC 6982 5.5' W and PGC 65805 (Fairall 927) 5.6' NNE.  Fairly bright, moderately large, oval 4:3 ~E-W, 1.2'x0.9', broadly concentrated halo, then sharply brightens to a small bright nucleus.  A mag 10.6 star lies 4' NW and a mag 12 star is 1.4' E.