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NGC6471

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 17:44:12.6
Declination: +67:35:34
Constellation: DRA
Visual Magnitude: 14.7

Historic Information

Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 16.0

Observational

Summary description: eeF, eS, R, * nr, 4th of 6
Sub-type: Sc

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 6471.  See NGC 6456.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6471

24" (8/23/14): extremely faint or very faint, small, very elongated 3:1 N-S, 20"x6".  Located 1.6' S of brighter NGC 6470 and 3.7' ESE of NGC 6463.

17.5" (6/11/88): extremely faint and small, round.  Forms a double system with UGC 10973b 30" ESE (possibly seen as a faint mag 15 "star") in the NGC 6456 group. In a tight quartet with NGC 6470 1.6' N and NGC 6472 2.4' NNW.  Also nearby is NGC 6463 3.7' W.