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NGC5548

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 14:17:59.4
Declination: +25:8:12
Constellation: BOO
Visual Magnitude: 12.6

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1784
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: cF, pS, R, vsvmbM *
Sub-type: S0-a

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 5548 is one of the original "Seyfert" galaxies with an active stellar
nucleus.  It is also one of the galaxies involved in the story of Johnstone
Binney at the eyepiece of LdR's 72-inch reflector on the 13th of April 1850.
That story is told in the "notngc" files; see that under UGC 9165.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5548

13.1" (6/4/83): fairly bright, small, fairly bright stellar nucleus [Seyfert galaxy], round, faint halo.  NGC 5559 lies 26' SE.