400/500mm - 18" (6/21/09): this surprisingly bright UGC galaxy is located 20' SW of NGC 6223 and 23' NE of mag 6.9 HD 150578. At 280x it appeared fairly faint, fairly small, elongated ~2:1 NNW-SSE, 0.6'x0.3, small bright core. A mag 11 star lies 2.7' NE. Forms a pair with MCG +10-24-23 2.7' SW.