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NGC5504

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 14:12:15.7
Declination: +15:50:29
Constellation: BOO
Visual Magnitude: 13.0

Historic Information

Discoverer: Stephan
Year of discovery: 1880
Discovery aperture: 31.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, vlE, vlbM
Sub-type: SBbc

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 5504.  See IC 4383.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5504

18" (6/18/04): fairly faint, fairly small, slightly elongated ~E-W, 0.8'x0.65'.  Fairly low surface brightness but it appears to be uneven (face-on barred spiral).  Forms a close pair with IC 4383 1.8' NNW.  The IC galaxy appeared faint, small, round, 15" diameter.

17.5" (5/11/02): fairly faint, moderately large, round, 1.2' diameter, fairly low surface brightness.  Located 11' WSW of mag 8.3 SAO 100916.