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NGC6436

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 17:41:13.2
Declination: +60:26:59
Constellation: DRA
Visual Magnitude: 14.0

Historic Information

Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1884
Discovery aperture: 16.0

Observational

Summary description: eeF, pS, lE, *** nr
Sub-type: Sc

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6436

17.5" (7/19/90): faint, elongated 2:1 N-S, even surface brightness.  An extremely faint 16th magnitude star is just west of the core.  Almost collinear with three mag 13 stars off the south edge which are aligned E-W.