NGC 6846 = Lund 912 = OCL-139 = Cr 410
19 56 28.1 +32 20 58
V = 14.2;  Size 0.8

17.5": at 225x appears as a small, faint clump of stars over unresolved haze.  
Elongated about 3:2 E-W with dimensions 1.5'x1.0'.  A mag 13.5 star is off the 
NW edge, a mag 14 star is at the W edge and three additional mag 14 stars in a 
clump are just visible over of the haze although clean resolution is difficult.  
The extremely faint stellar planetary K4-41 is 2' NE!  The position given in 
RNGC, Lynga, N2000 and U2000 is exactly two degrees too far south.

Discovered by Stephan and correctly placed at 19 56 28.7 +32 21 16 (2000).  RNGC 
lists this open cluster at 19h 56.5m +30 21 (2000) or two degrees south of 
Stephan's position and I unsuccessfully searched for the cluster at this 
position with my 17.5" scope.  The incorrect position in the RNGC is also found 
in the Lynga #5 catalogue (source of the orignal error?) and is repeated in NGC 
2000, DSFG and on the U2000 star atlas.  Listed in RNGC Corrections #6.  See 
Corwin's NGCBUGS.

- by Steve Gottlieb

NGC 6846.  The RNGC position is 2 degrees too far south.  At the correct
position is a compact little cluster matching Stephan's description exactly:  
the three brightest stars are clear enough that he could see them, but the 
others are considerably fainter, so the entire group must have looked quite 
nebulous to him. - Dr. Harold G. Corwin, Jr.