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NGC5616

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 14:24:20.6
Declination: +36:27:41
Constellation: BOO
Visual Magnitude: 13.8

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1785
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: vF, S, cE, vgbM, er
Sub-type: SBbc

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5616

17.5" (7/10/99): faint, moderately large, edge-on 2.0'x0.4' oriented NNW-SSE, bright core.  A mag 15 star lies 2.5' N of center.  Located 6.7' N of mag 9.5 SAO 64124.