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NGC5283

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 13:41:5.7
Declination: +67:40:23
Constellation: DRA
Visual Magnitude: 13.2

Historic Information

Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1866
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational

Summary description: F, S, stell
Sub-type: S0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5283

17.5" (5/11/02): fairly faint, fairly small, round, 1.0' diameter.  Increases to a bright core and occasional stellar nucleus (this is a Seyfert galaxy!).  Collinear with a mag 14 star 2.4' NE and a mag 10.5 star 4.7' NE.  Another mag 14 star lies 2.5' W.