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NGC6410
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 17:35:20.5
Declination: +60:47:32
Constellation: DRA
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1887
Discovery aperture: 16.0
Observational
Summary description: eeF, S, R, nearly bet 2 st, sp of 2
Sub-type: *2
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 6410 is one of the few double stars from Lewis Swift's list of "nebulae"
that we can confidently say that he saw. Though he believed it to be an "eeF,
S, R" nebula, his additional notes "nearly between two stars; GC 4320 [NGC
6411] near north-following" make it clear that he was indeed observing the
double star. His position is not too bad, but is still far enough off (over
two arcminutes) that -- without his additional notes on the field -- we could
not otherwise identify his object.