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NGC5583

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 14:21:40.5
Declination: +13:13:56
Constellation: BOO
Visual Magnitude: 13.5

Historic Information

Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 16.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, pS, R, pB * nr
Sub-type: S

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 5583.  See NGC 5586.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5583

17.5" (7/22/01): faint, small, elongated 4:3 ~E-W, 0.4'x0.3'.  Forms the SE vertex of a small equilateral triangle with a mag 11 star 1' NW and a mag 14 star 1' W.