Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6750 (Swift list II (#73), 1860 RA 18 58 27, NPD 31 01.9) is "very faint, very small, round".
Physical Information: Based on a recessional velocity of 3720 km/sec, NGC 6750 is about 175 million light years away. Given that and its apparent size of 1.0 by 0.6? arcmin, it is about 50 thousand light years across.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6751 (= GC 5940, Marth #397, Stephan list XII (#90), 1860 RA 18 58 27, NPD 96 12.1) is "pretty bright, small".
Discovery Notes: See NGC 6748 for a discussion of the duplicate listing.
PGC Designation Note: For purposes of completeness, LEDA assigned a PGC designation to this object, even though it isn't a galaxy; however, a search of the database for that designation returns no result, so it is shown in quotes.
Physical Information: Apparent size 0.43? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6752 (= GC 4467 = JH 3778, Dunlop 295, 1860 RA 18 58 28, NPD 150 11.8) is "a globular cluster, bright, very large, irregularly round, well resolved, clearly consisting of stars, stars from 11th to 16th magnitude".
Physical Information: Apparent size 29? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6753 (= GC 4468 = JH 3779, 1860 RA 18 59 38, NPD 147 15.5) is "pretty bright, pretty large, round, gradually brighter middle".
Physical Information: Apparent size 2.4 by 2.1? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6754 (= GC 4469 = JH 3780, 1860 RA 19 00 34, NPD 140 51.5) is "pretty faint, pretty large, much extended 63°, very gradually a little brighter middle".
Physical Information: Apparent size 1.8 by 0.9? arcmin.

Physical Information: Apparent size 1.7 by 0.3? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6755 (= GC 4470 = JH 2030 = WH VII 19, 1860 RA 19 00 51, NPD 85 59.3) is "a cluster, very large, very rich, pretty compressed, stars from 12th to 14th magnitude".
Physical Information: Apparent size 15? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6756 (= GC 4471 = JH 2031 = WH VII 62, 1860 RA 19 01 47, NPD 85 32.7) is "a cluster, small, rich, a little compressed, stars from 11th to 12th magnitude".
Physical Information: Apparent size 4.0? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6757 (Swift list II (#74), 1860 RA 19 01 55, NPD 34 30.0) is "pretty faint, much extended, 3 faint stars involved". The second IC lists a corrected RA (per Howe and Bigourdan) of 19 02 19.
Physical Information: Apparent size 1.4 by 1.0? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6758 (= GC 4472 = JH 3781, 1860 RA 19 02 16, NPD 146 32.4) is "pretty bright, small, round".
Physical Information: Apparent size 2.3 by 1.7? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6759 (Swift list V (#89), (Voigt 8), 1860 RA 19 03 20, NPD 39 51.9) is "very faint, small, round, very faint double star close to southwest".
Discovery Notes: Voigt's discovery was one of ten nebulae he discovered between March and August of 1865; but they were only noted in his observing records, and were not published until 1987, so Dreyer had no knowledge of his observation, hence his inclusion in parentheses.
Physical Information: Apparent size 1.0 by 0.7? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6760 (= GC 4473, Hind, (d'Arrest), 1860 RA 19 04 05, NPD 89 11.7) is "pretty bright, pretty large, very gradually a little brighter middle (Auwers 44)".
Discovery Notes: d'Arrest's observation was essentially a footnote to observations of the positions of comets and asteroids in April of 1852, and not noted in the GC or NGC (hence its being shown here in parentheses). Dreyer's reference to Arthur von Auwers does not mean that Auwers observed this object. A catalog of all known nebulae published by Auwers in 1862 was one of the sources for John Herschel's GC, which was the basis for the NGC. In this case, (Auwers 44) means that in Herschel's entry for GC 4473 he cites #44 in Auwers' table of nebulae discovered by various observers after 1845 as the source for his information about Hind's discovery.
Physical Information: Apparent size 9.6? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6761 (= GC 4474 = JH 3782, 1860 RA 19 04 14, NPD 140 53.2) is "very faint, pretty small, irregularly round".
Physical Information: Apparent size 1.6 by 1.2? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6762 (Swift list II (#75), 1860 RA 19 04 18, NPD 26 17.5) is "extremely faint, much extended". The second IC states (per Howe and Bigourdan) "6762 = 6763, RA is 19 04 32", so the equality of the two entries has been known for more than a century. For that matter, given the nearly identical positions and similar descriptions, it is surprising that Dreyer didn't suspect the equality when he compiled the NGC, for if there had been two objects so close together Swift should have noted it in his paper.
Physical Information: Apparent size 1.5 by 0.4? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6763 (Swift list II (#76), 1860 RA 19 04 18, NPD 26 17.0) is "extremely faint, very small, considerably extended, faint star near". The second IC states (per Howe and Bigourdan) "6762 = 6763, RA is 19 04 32", so the equality of the two entries has been known for more than a century. For that matter, given the nearly identical positions and similar descriptions, it is surprising that Dreyer didn't suspect the equality when he compiled the NGC, for if there had been two objects so close together Swift should have noted it in his paper.
Physical Information: Given the duplicate entry, see NGC 6762 for anything else.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6764 (Swift list II (#77), 1860 RA 19 04 43, NPD 39 17.5) is "pretty faint, pretty large, much extended, several very faint stars involved".
Physical Information: Apparent size 2.2 by 1.2? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6765 (= GC 5941, Marth #398, Stephan list II (#??) & MS, 1860 RA 19 05 42, NPD 59 40.9) is "faint, small, extended".
Discovery Notes: "MS" following Stephan's name indicates that Dreyer not only obtained information about Stephan's observation from his published list II, but also via a manuscript (that is, a private communication).
PGC Designation Note: For purposes of completeness, LEDA assigned a PGC designation to this object, even though it isn't a galaxy; however, a search of the database for that designation returns no result, so it is shown in quotes.
Physical Information:

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6766 (Pickering (HN 53), 1860 RA 19 05 57, NPD 43 57.7) is "a planetary nebula, stellar". The RA is off by an hour (it should be 20 05 57), but Dreyer never learned of the error, and as a result NGC 6766 was thought to be lost or nonexistent for more than a century. However, it turns out that Pickering published a corrected position (in HA 60) after the last NGC/IC catalog was published, and it was just bad luck (and the difficulty of searching through mountains of old and presumably obsolete papers) that no one noticed that correction (or Thomas Espin's 1911 paper, in which he quotes Pickering as having corrected the position) until (per Corwin) Dave Riddle finally found the answer to the puzzle. In any event, the huge error in the NGC position made it inevitable that Copeland's later observation would end up with a completely different listing, even though Pickering's corrected position (and description) was identical.
An Interesting Observational Note: Corwin mentions Pickering's ingenious method of discovering "stellar" planetaries, which are indistinguishable from stars by ordinary methods of observation. He would place a prism in the light path of his telescope which turned stellar images into a blur of various colors (or more accurately, given their faintness, into a linear blur of a pale grayish color) corresponding to their continuous spectra, but left planetary nebulae, which emit significant amounts of light at only one or two wavelengths, as apparently stellar objects. In other words, the stars became nebular blurs, and the planetary nebulae remained starlike; so that the appearance was exactly backwards from the reality. This provided an easy way to quickly distinguish planetary nebulae from stars, albeit one that is beyond the reach of most amateur telescopes, which (until the advent of CCD cameras) would produce spectra far too faint to see.
PGC Designation Note: LEDA contains no entry for NGC 6766, but as a duplicate observation of NGC 6884, the PGC designation assigned to that object is shown in the title for this entry; but since a search of the database for that designation returns no result, it is shown in quotes.
Physical Information: Normally physical data and images for duplicate listings are placed at the earlier numbered entry, but since the identification of NGC 6766 was delayed by more than a century, this planetary is almost universally called NGC 6884; so see that entry for anything else.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6767 (J. G. Lohse, 1860 RA 19 06 40, NPD 52 30.8) is "very faint, small, round, stellar, small star near to north".
Physical Information:

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6768 (= GC 4475 = JH 3786, 1860 RA 19 06 50, NPD 130 25.7) is "very faint, small, round, pretty suddenly a little brighter middle".
Physical Information: Apparent size 1.2 by 1.1? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Close to NGC 6768 and listed by Steinicke as component 2 of that object. Whether that is reasonable depends upon the visual appearance of the pair in a telescope similar to that used by Herschel. For now I am listing it as a separate object, but a later iteration of this entry will discuss whether it should be listed as a separate object, or as part of NGC 6768.
Physical Information: Apparent size 0.6 by 0.4? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6769 (= GC 4476 = JH 3783, 1860 RA 19 06 54, NPD 150 44.3) is "very faint, small, round, a little brighter middle, 1st of 3", the others being NGC 6770 and 6771. The second IC notes "RA to be decreased by one minute (DeLisle Stewart). h. observed only once".
Physical Information: Apparent size 2.2 by 1.5? arcmin. Part of a triple system with NGC 6770 and 6771.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6770 (= GC 4477 = JH 3784, 1860 RA 19 07 06, NPD 150 44.8) is "extremely faint, very small, 2nd of 3", the others being NGC 6769 and 6771. The second IC notes "RA to be decreased by one minute (DeLisle Stewart). h. observed only once".
Physical Information: Apparent size 2.2 by 1.6? arcmin. Part of a triple system with NGC 6769 and 6771.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6771 (= GC 4478 = JH 3785, 1860 RA 19 07 07, NPD 150 46.4) is "extremely faint, small, 3rd of 3", the others being NGC 6769 and 6770. The second IC notes "RA to be decreased by one minute (DeLisle Stewart). h. observed only once".
Physical Information: Apparent size 2.3 by 0.5? arcmin. Part of a triple system with NGC 6769 and 6770.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6772 (= GC 4479 = JH 2032 = WH IV 14, 1860 RA 19 07 15, NPD 92 57.1) is "very faint, large, round, very very little brighter middle, mottled but not resolved".
PGC Designation Note: For purposes of completeness, LEDA assigned a PGC designation to this object, even though it isn't a galaxy; however, a search of the database for that designation returns no result, so it is shown in quotes.
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 1.45 by 1.05 arcmin (from the images below).

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6773 (= GC 4480 = JH 2033, 1860 RA 19 08 04, NPD 85 22.2) is "a cluster, poor, a little compressed".
Physical Information:

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6774 (= GC 4481 = JH 2034, 1860 RA 19 08 39, NPD 106 30.6) is "a cluster, very large, a little compressed".
Physical Information: Apparent size 20? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6775 (= GC 4482 = JH 2035, 1860 RA 19 09 38, NPD 91 09.8) is "a cluster, poor, a little compressed, stars from 10th to 11th magnitude".
Physical Information: Apparent size 13? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6776 (= GC 4483 = JH 3787, 1860 RA 19 10 23, NPD 154 08.4) is "pretty bright, small, round, pretty gradually brighter middle". The second IC adds "RA is 19 08 47 (DeLisle Stewart). h. observed only once".
Physical Information: Apparent size 1.6 by 1.4? arcmin.

Physical Information: 1.4 by 0.3? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6777 (= GC 4484, Lacaille I 13, 1860 RA 19 10 46, NPD 161 45.6) is "a nebula without stars". The second IC notes "Not een [presumably 'not seen'], 2 stars 8 or 9 magnitude near, but no nebula (DeLisle Stewart); only observed by Lacaille". The current identification appears uncertain, and Steinicke suggests the actual object may have been NGC 6752.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6778 (= GC 5942, Marth #399, 1860 RA 19 11 04, NPD 91 52) is "small, extended, ill-defined disc".
PGC Designation Note: For purposes of completeness, LEDA assigned a PGC designation to this object, even though it isn't a galaxy; and a search of the database for that designation does return a result, so it is shown without quotes.
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 0.45 by 0.35 arcmin (from the images below).

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6779 (= GC 4485 = JH 2036, M 56, 1860 RA 19 11 08, NPD 60 03.7) is "a globular cluster, bright, large, irregularly round, gradually much compressed middle, well resolved, clearly consisting of stars, stars from 11th to 14th magnitude".
Physical Information: Apparent size 8.8? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6780 (= GC 4486 = JH 3788, 1860 RA 19 11 18, NPD 146 01.8) is "very faint, large, round, very gradually a little brighter middle".
Physical Information: Apparent size 1.9 by 1.6? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6781 (= GC 4487 = JH 2037 = WH III 743, 1860 RA 19 11 38, NPD 83 42.9) is "a planetary nebula, faint, large, round, very suddenly brighter middle and disc, small star to northeast".
PGC Designation Note: For purposes of completeness, LEDA assigned a PGC designation to this object, even though it isn't a galaxy; however, a search of the database for that designation returns no result, so it is shown in quotes.
Physical Information: Apparent size 1.9? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6782 (= GC 4488 = JH 3789, 1860 RA 19 11 39, NPD 150 10.7) is "considerably faint, considerably small, round, a little brighter middle, 9th magnitude star to south".
Physical Information: Apparent size 2.4 by 2.0? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6783 (= GC 5943, Stephan list IV (#2), 1860 RA 19 12 40, NPD 44 14.8) is "extremely faint, difficult".
Physical Information: Apparent size 0.6 by 0.6? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6784 (= GC 4489 = JH 3790, 1860 RA 19 12 48, NPD 155 53.0) is "most extremely excessively faint, pretty small, among small stars".
Physical Information: Apparent size 0.9 by 0.5? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Since this object has the same brightness and appearance as NGC 6784 and is close enough to it that the pair might have looked like a single extended object to Herschel, this may actually be a component of NGC 6784; but the research required to verify or disprove that must await a later iteration of this page.
Physical Information: Apparent size 0.9 by 0.5? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6785 (= GC 4490 = JH 2038, 1860 RA 19 13 23, NPD 91 21.4) is "extremely small, stellar". The second IC lists a corrected RA (per Bigourdan) of 19 13 37.
PGC Designation Note: For purposes of completeness, LEDA assigned a PGC designation to this object, even though it isn't a galaxy; and a search of the database for that designation does return a result, so it is shown without quotes.
Physical Information: Given the duplicate entry, see NGC 6778 for anything else.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6786 (Swift list V (#90), 1860 RA 19 13 38, NPD 16 49.4) is "most extremely faint, small, round, 2 stars to northeast". The second IC notes (per Howe) "is only faint, not most extremely faint".
Physical Information: Apparent size 1.1 by 0.9? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6787 (Swift list II (#78), 1860 RA 19 13 59, NPD 29 49.7) is "most extremely faint, pretty small, 4 stars to southeast, extremely difficult".
Physical Information: Apparent size 1.2 by 1.0? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6788 (= GC 4491 = JH 3791, 1860 RA 19 14 31, NPD 145 13.6) is "pretty bright, small, much extended, pretty suddenly a little brighter middle". The second IC notes "Minutes of RA are 15 not 14 (DeLisle Stewart; h. was doubtful about it)".
Discovery Notes: Stewart's note describes the object as "a nebula, faint, small, extremely extended 70, bright stellar nucleus", close enough to Herschel's description to be confident that it is the same object. (Stewart's tabular position has 1900 RA 19 17.8, but his description says it is at 18.7 minutes, which must be an inadvertent transposition of the last two digits.)
Physical Information: Apparent size 2.9 by 0.9? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6789 (Swift list IV (#75), 1860 RA 19 15 28, NPD 26 18.1) is "most extremely faint, pretty large, round, very difficult".
Physical Information: Apparent size 1.3 by 1.0? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6790 (Pickering (HN 46), 1860 RA 19 15 50, NPD 88 45.0) is "a planetary nebula, bright, extremely small, stellar image equivalent to 9.5 magnitude".
PGC Designation Note: For purposes of completeness, LEDA assigned a PGC designation to this object, even though it isn't a galaxy; however, a search of the database for that designation returns no result, so it is shown in quotes.
Physical Information: Apparent size 0.17? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6791 (= GC 4492, Winnecke, (Tuttle), 1860 RA 19 15 56, NPD 52 28.5) is "very faint (Auwers 45)".
Discovery Notes: Dreyer did not mention Tuttle's observation, so though noted by Steinicke it is shown in parentheses; and the reference to Auwers means that John Herschel took the discovery information from Auwer's catalog (in which it was #45 in a list of newly discovered nebulae), and does not necessarily mean that Auwers actually observed the object.
Physical Information: Apparent size 10? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6792 (J. G. Lohse, 1860 RA 19 16 24, NPD 47 09.5) is "faint, extended 26°, gradually a little brighter middle, 9.5 magnitude star to southeast".
Physical Information: Apparent size 2.2 by 1.3? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6793 (= GC 4493 = JH 2039 = WH VIII 81, 1860 RA 19 17 14, NPD 68 06.1) is "a cluster, poor, a little compressed".
Physical Information: Apparent size 7? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6794 (= GC 4494 = JH 3792, 1860 RA 19 18 24, NPD 129 09.7) is "extremely faint, pretty small, round, very gradually a very little brighter middle".
Physical Information: Apparent size 1.7 by 1.4? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6795 (= GC 4495 = JH 2040, 1860 RA 19 19 07, NPD 86 44.8) is "a cluster, rich, between two 9th magnitude stars". (Corwin notes that Herschel's more detailed description states that there are three 9th magnitude stars "nearly in the parallel", meaning aligned east-west along nearly the same line of declination, "joined by a rich clustering portion of the Milky Way", which Corwin states seems closer to the middle star than to Herschel's position, which is closer to the first star.) The position precesses to RA 19 26 06.9, Dec +03 31 42, close to the westernmost of a line of three 8 to 9th magnitude stars, so there is no doubt that this is the correct region. Unfortunately, modern photographs show a region so filled with stars it is difficult to see any specific clustering, but an analysis of the properties of the stars in the region confirms the existence of an actual cluster centered near the position listed above, which is essentially the same as Corwin's suggested position.
Physical Information: The cluster's Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram suggests an age just under a billion years and a distance of about 4300 light years. Given that and its apparent size of 8 arcmin, NGC 6795 is about 10 light years across.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6796 (Swift list II (#79), 1860 RA 19 19 25, NPD 29 07.5) is "very faint, pretty small, much extended north-south".
Physical Information: Apparent size 1.9 by 0.4? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6797 (Peters, 1860 RA 19 20 25, NPD 115 56.6) is "a nebula with a 9th magnitude star attached on the east". The second IC states "Not found by Howe".
Physical Information:

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6798 (Swift list II (#80), 1860 RA 19 20 41, NPD 36 39.4) is "faint, very small, round, star very near".
Physical Information: Apparent size 1.6 by 0.9? arcmin.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 6799 (= GC 4496 = JH 3793, 1860 RA 19 20 47, NPD 146 11.7) is "extremely faint, very small, round, a little brighter middle, 3 very small stars near".
Physical Information: Apparent size 1.6 by 1.2? arcmin.