Lewis Swift discovered NGC 6454 = Sw. I-70 on 19 Apr 1885 and noted "vF; pS; R; lbM." His position is 18 seconds of RA too small. Bigourdan remeasured an accurate RA on 4 Oct 1890 (repeated in the IC 2 Notes).

400/500mm - 17.5" (7/19/90): faint, very small, round, small bright core. A mag 14 star is superimposed or contains a fairly bright stellar nucleus. Located 5.9' SE of mag 8.7 SAO 30546. This is the brighter of a pair with NGC 6459 8' NE.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb