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NGC6411

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 17:35:32.6
Declination: +60:48:47
Constellation: DRA
Visual Magnitude: 11.9

Historic Information


Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1861
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational


Summary description: vS, gbM
Sub-type: E4

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 6411, found by d'A, was helpful in pinning down the identification of NGC 6410 (which see).

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 6411 17.5" (6/22/90): fairly faint, fairly small, oval 3:2 SW-NE, 1.1'x0.8', gradually increases to a very small bright core. A mag 13.5 star is 20" off the SW edge and 57" from the center.