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NGC5608

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 14:23:17.6
Declination: +41:46:32
Constellation: BOO
Visual Magnitude: 13.3

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1787
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: F, pL, lE, vglbM
Sub-type: Im

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 5608 is a low surface brightness late-type spiral.  In the SDSS image,
it's face is covered with HII regions and just-resolved supergiant stars.  Two
HII regions are close west and southwest of a very faint nucleus; most of the
automated positions are centered either on these knots or on the center of the 
outer isophotes.  I have estimated the position of the nucleus on the SDSS,
and -- somewhat reluctantly -- adopted that.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5608

17.5" (7/10/99): faint, moderately large, elongated 3:2 E-W, ~1.8'x1.2'.  This galaxy has a pretty low surface brightness with very weak concentration and an ill-defined edge to the halo.  Located 11' WNW of mag 8.8 SAO 45037.