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NGC5308

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 13:47:0.0
Declination: +60:58:22
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude: 11.4

Historic Information


Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1790
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational


Summary description: B, pL, mE 57°, psbMBEN
Sub-type: S0

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 5308 18" (4/26/08): fairly bright, moderately large, very thin edge-on SW-NE, 1.7'x0.35', sharply concentrated with a very small, bright core and a relatively bright stellar nucleus. A faint star is just beyond the end of the western extension. 17.5" (5/30/92): bright, fairly small, almost edge-on 4:1 SW-NE, 1.8'x0.4', very small very bright core, unusually bright stellar nucleus or almost stellar nucleus. Appears as a pretty streak with a high surface brightness core.