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NGC6422

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 17:36:29.8
Declination: +68:3:30
Constellation: DRA
Visual Magnitude: 14.8

Historic Information


Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1883
Discovery aperture: 16.0

Observational


Summary description: eF, pS, R, nearly bet 2 st
Sub-type: E-S0

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 6422. See NGC 6419.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 6422 17.5" (6/11/88): faint, very small, round, bright core. In a compact trio with similar NGC 6420 1.3' WSW and MCG +11-21-014 1' NW. The MCG was the faintest of the trio and appeared extremely faint, very small, round, even surface brightness. Located in a group with NGC 6419 6.3' NNW and CGCG 321-023 = PGC 60529 7' WNW. The CGCG appeared very faint, extremely small, round. A mag 15 star is off the south edge.