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NGC5306
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 13:49:11.2
Declination: -7:13:24
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 12.2
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1785
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: vF, vS, R, r
Sub-type: S0
Steve's Notes
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NGC 5306
17.5" (5/11/96): moderately bright, fairly small, round, 1.0' diameter, well concentrated with a 20" bright core. A mag 13 star is 0.8' NW of center. NGC 5306 is the brightest member of HCG 67 with extremely faint MCG -01-35-013 = HCG 67B 3.4' NW. This edge-on is an extremely faint, moderately large streak, elongated 6:1 SSW-NNE with dimensions 2.0'x0.3'. Very low even surface brightness and requires averted vision to glimpse. A couple of times HCG 67D was highly suspected off the south edge (35" from center).