Object: Nonex-open cluster NGC 6840 & -43       Constell: AQL

RA: 19h 55.3m (-40)     Decl: +12° 06'          Epoch: 2000
Mag:                    Size: 5'/5' (own)       Type: III 2 p
                                                      IV 2 p
Observer: Jere Kahanpää                               (own)
Obs. place: Jyväskylä, Finland
Date/Time: 7./8.8.1996, 01.20

Telescope: N 202/1210
Magn: 97x               Filter:
Field: 31'              NE Lim.mag: 5.2m
Background sky: 5       Seeing: 2-3
Weather: +10 °C, 1/2 Moon E.       

Brightness: 4, 5        Alt: 35°
Description:
NGC 6840: Visible at 48x as a small clump of stars. 97x: Ten
stars within 5'. Oblong NE-SW. Most stars in two subgroups,
brightest mag. 11.5. Might be a real cluster. 

Orig. descr. W. Herschel (1784): "A S. forming Cl. of st."
J. Herschel (1833): "A small poor cluster; the preceeding of two
distinct clusters. The stars 11m."
 
NGC 6843: Suspected at 48x as a eF grainy glow. 97x: Smaller and
more difficult than -40. Size 5'. Brightest stars (mag. 12) N
and S. Quite difficult in this weather but exists. 

Orig. descr W. Herschel (1784): "A Cl. of co. sc. L st. not
rich."
J. Herschel (1833): "A small, poor cluster. The following of
two, just alike"