Object: Gaseous nebula NGC 6857                 Constell: CYG

RA: 20h 01.8m           Decl: +33° 31'          Epoch: 2000
Mag: 11.4m (v)          Size: 40''              Type: 3(3)

Observer: Jere Kahanpää
Obs. place: Hartola, Finland
Date/Time: 28./29.8.1997, 00.00

Telescope: N 205/1000
Magn: 133x              Filter: O-III
Field: 22'              NE Lim.mag: 6.0m
Background sky: 3       Seeing: 2
Weather: +18 °C, no Moon.

Brightness: 3           Alt: 60°
Description: Faint stars added without a filter. A small but
quite bright diffuse glow including some stars and surrounded by
a small group. The main body of the nebula seems to be vedge-
shaped and pointing towards the 13th magnitude star on the W
edge of the nebula.