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NGC5650
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 14:31:0.9
Declination: +5:58:42
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 12.5
Historic Information
Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1887
Discovery aperture: 16.0
Observational
Summary description: vF, pS, R
Sub-type: SBc
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 5650 = NGC 5652. Swift's description and position match NGC 5652, found a
century earlier by William Herschel. Also observed by JH, the NGC position is
pretty good -- as is Swift's. The mystery here is why neither Swift nor
Dreyer caught the match. The RA's are only 8 seconds of time different, and
the declinations even closer at 0.5 arcmin.
Well, there are many other matching objects with even closer coordinates that
Dreyer did not catch, either. Perhaps he was giving the benefit of doubt to
the observers.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 5650
See observing notes for NGC 5652.