Observations of NGC6901
These are the observations available for NGC6901. If you have any of your own that you'd like to submit we'd love to put them on the website.
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Observations the June and July Galaxies of the Month
The skies were pretty good – about mag 5.7. I used the Mewlon 300 and 17mm Ethos (x210) for the sketches.
First off was June’s Galaxy of the Month; NGC 6702/3 in Lyra.
NGC 6702 was about twice as faint as NGC 6703 which had an obvious core and outer halo. Hint of core/outer halo in NGC 6702.
Next was July’s Galaxy of the Month; NGC 6901/6 but I didn’t realise until too late that NGC 6901/6 don’t fit in the same FOV so I’ve had to split them into two different sketches – Doh!
NGC 6901 was very faint, needed Averted Vision (AV) to see it. I thought NGC 6906 had a hint of a stellar core but looking at the maps Owen provided afterwards probably a star superimposed on it.
Andrew Robertson - 5 August 2016
