K 4-41, an extremely faint stellar planetary is situated just 2' NE! It wasn't visible without a filter, even using the ESO-Strausberg finder chart. But adding an OIII filter iI was able to glimpse it several times about 15" S of a mag 14 star. Appears stellar and estimate V = 16.0-16.5.

Édouard Stephan discovered NGC 6846 = St V-4 on 17 Aug 1873 and recorded "eF, vS, surrounds 3 faint stars." At his position is a small knot or cluster of faint stars.

RNGC places this open cluster at 2° too far south and I unsuccessfully searched for the cluster at this position with my 17.5" scope. The same error is in the Lynga catalogue (source of the original error?) and repeated in NGC 2000, Deep Sky Field Guide, and the first edition of the Uranometria 2000 star atlas. Listed in my RNGC Corrections #6. See Corwin's notes.

400/500mm - 17.5" (9/7/91): 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 west edge and three additional mag 14 stars in a clump are just visible over of the haze although clean resolution is difficult.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb