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NGC5594
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 14:23:10.2
Declination: +26:15:59
Constellation: BOO
Visual Magnitude: 14.2
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1784
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: eF, vS, stellar
Sub-type: S
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 5594 = IC 4412. Dreyer has noted that CH and JH have introduced an 11
arcmin error in WH's north polar distance offset from his comparison star.
Even when the offset is corrected, the galaxy is still several arcmin from
WH's position. But as there is no other bright galaxy near, this is the most
likely candidate.
Because of the error in the NGC position, Bigourdan did not find the galaxy,
and Javelle rediscovered it in 1895. It made its way into the second IC from
his third list. Javelle's position is good, though I find it odd that neither
he nor WH mentioned the brighter star just to the southeast of the galaxy.
Reinmuth was apparently the first to suggest the identity of the two numbers.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 5594
17.5" (6/23/01): faint, small, elongated 4:3 ~N-S, 0.7'x0.5', weak concentration. Located 1.9' NNW of a mag 10.5 star. The galaxy did not appear as elongated as dimensions imply, so probably only viewed the inner region.