Harold Corwin

NGC 6415 is nothing more than a Milky Way field. There is no nebula obviously involved in spite of John Herschel's brief description, "A great nebulous projection of the milky way [sic]." John Herschel gives only an approximate RA and -- tellingly -- did not assign a running number in his catalogues of nebulae and clusters. In the GC and NGC it is called "3701'" as it follows h3701 in CGH.

On the IIIa-J film, I make the RA more than a minute later than John Herschel, and the Dec 2-3 arcmin south. See NGC 6421 for more.

― NGC Notes by Harold Corwin

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