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NGC5042

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 13:15:30.8
Declination: -23:59:2
Constellation: HYA
Visual Magnitude: 11.8

Historic Information


Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1836
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational


Summary description: F, L, R, vgvlbM, * 9 p
Sub-type: SBc

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 5042 18" (5/16/09): very large, diffuse galaxy with a fairly low surface brightness, elongated 5:3 SSW-NNE. At 175x there was a broad, weak central brightening but no core or nucleus and appeared nearly 3.0'x1.8' in size. Located 2.4' NE of mag 8 HD 115123 that detracted from viewing. A faint pair of mag 15 stars is at the NNE end. 17.5" (6/1/02): large, low surface brightness galaxy situated just 2.4' NE of mag 8.1 SAO 181487 with a broad concentration. Picked up at 100x and 200x was nearly too high a power for a good view (in fairly poor seeing). Appears elongated at least 2:1 SSW-NNE and perhaps 3'x1.5' although the halo smoothly fades into the background and the nearby bright star detracts from a good view of the halo.