NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort

(This is a very very beta version)

NGC5586

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 14:22:7.6
Declination: +13:11:4
Constellation: BOO
Visual Magnitude:

Historic Information


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

Observational


Summary description: eF, vS, R
Sub-type: NF

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 5586 may be = NGC 5587, but Swift's description ("eF, vS, R; nearly bet 2 B sts") doesn't match -- the galaxy is very elongated and there is only one bright star near to the southeast -- and his nominal declination is 44 arcmin off. Another possibility is CGCG 075-022, but that is too faint, and has no flanking bright stars. The other two candidate galaxies in the area, NGC 5583 and NGC 5591, were both found by Swift on the same night as N5586, so are not likely to be the missing galaxy (unless he recorded the wrong date for one of these). There is no significant systematic offset in their positions, either. I searched at reasonable digit errors (+- 1 deg and +- 1 minute) with no luck, so the best we can do with this object for the time being is "Not found."