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NGC6443
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 17:44:33.7
Declination: +48:6:52
Constellation: HER
Visual Magnitude: 13.8
Historic Information
Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 16.0
Observational
Summary description: eF, pS, lE
Sub-type: Sab
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6443
17.5" (8/1/89): faint, fairly small, very elongated NW-SE, almost even surface brightness. Located along one side of a thin isosceles triangle of three mag 14 stars (two lie 1.6' N and 1.5' S). A mag 11 star is 3.3' E.