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NGC5658

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 14:40:56.5
Declination: -0:19:4
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 12.2

Historic Information

Discoverer: Bond
Year of discovery: 1853
Discovery aperture: 15.0

Observational

Summary description: Neb, F, E (Auw 35)
Sub-type: SBab/P

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 5658 = NGC 5719.  Discovered in 1853 by the then director of Harvard 
Observatory, George P. Bond, we took this for many years as the faint star 
near this position.  Briefly, Bond misidentified his comparison star.  See 
NGC 5632 for more. 

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5658

See observing notes for NGC 5719.