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NGC5687
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 14:34:52.2
Declination: +54:28:36
Constellation: BOO
Visual Magnitude: 11.8
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1789
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: pF, S, iF, r, * 10 f
Sub-type: E-S0
Steve's Notes
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NGC 5687
18" (5/3/08): at 280x appeared fairly bright, fairly small for a bright galaxy, elongated 3:2 ~E-W, ~1.0'x0.7'. Sharply concentrated with a very bright 20" core and much fainter extensions. A short 1' N-S string of 3 stars begins at the preceding end with a mag 13.5-14 star. A fainter mag 14.5-15 star is at the east end bracketing the galaxy. Located 2' N is mag 9.9 HD 238370.
13.1" (5/14/83): located 2.0' N of mag 9.2 SAO 29208. Faint, small, elongated 4:3 E-W. Two mag 13 and 14 stars are very close preceding 46" SW and 1.3' SSW of center, respectively.