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NGC5510

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 14:13:37.1
Declination: -17:59:3
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 13.4

Historic Information

Discoverer: Stone
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 26.3

Observational

Summary description: vF, S, R, gbM
Sub-type: IBm/P

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 5510.  This late-type spiral is dominated in the optical images by blue
knots scattered across its face.  One bright one in particular is very close
to the apparent center of the galaxy -- the SDSS position has been influenced
by it.  In the end, I've chosen the 2MASS PSC position as the best 
representation for the galaxy.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5510

17.5" (6/1/02): faint, fairly small, round, 0.9' diameter.  A mag 13 star is 1.3' SSE of center.  Seeing too poor for details, but the DSS image shows a knotty structure.  Forms the western vertex of a near equilateral triangle with mag 9.1 SAO 158442 9' ESE and a mag 9.8 star 9' NE.  A mag 6.5 star lies 28' SE.