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NGC6470
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 17:44:14.7
Declination: +67:37:9
Constellation: DRA
Visual Magnitude: 14.2
Historic Information
Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 16.0
Observational
Summary description: eeF, vS, R, v diffic, 3rd of 6
Sub-type: Sc
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 6470. See NGC 6456.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6470
24" (8/23/14): at 375x appeared faint, fairly small, slightly elongated N-S, 24"x18", small bright core. A mag 14 star is 0.7' NE. Brightest in a rich knot of galaxies with NGC 6471 = UGC 10973 1.6' SSW and NGC 6472 = PGC 2703230 1.3' NW and NGC 6477 = PGC 2702901 1.5' SE.
17.5" (6/11/88): very faint, very small, slightly elongated, small bright core. A mag 14 star is off the NE edge 0.7' from center. Member of the NGC 6456 group with NGC 6472 1.3' NW, NGC 6471 1.6' S, NGC 6477 1.5' SE and NGC 6463 4.0' W.