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NGC6430
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 17:45:14.2
Declination: +18:8:20
Constellation: HER
Visual Magnitude: 13.5
Historic Information
Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 48.0
Observational
Summary description: vF, S, mE
Sub-type: Sab
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 6430 is CGCG 112-035. The description and declination fit well, and the
RA is off by 38 seconds. Reinmuth has this as a chain of four stars, but the
galaxy is clearly the object that Marth saw.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6430
17.5" (8/7/02): at 220x appeared as a faint, moderately large edge-on oriented E-W, 1.2'x0.3' with a low even surface brightness. A mag 13.7 star is at the following end 50" from the center and the galaxy extends nearly due west.
Albert Marth's position for NGC 6430 was off by 38 tsec in RA and although his description matches, modern catalogues and the U2000 (second edition) identify this galaxy as UGC 10966. Karl Reinmuth identified NGC 6430 as a chain of 4 stars and the RNGC followed suit classifying NGC 6430 as nonexistent.