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NGC5707
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 14:37:30.8
Declination: +51:33:44
Constellation: BOO
Visual Magnitude: 12.5
Historic Information
Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1878
Discovery aperture: 4.5
Observational
Summary description: B, pS, R
Sub-type: Sab
Steve's Notes
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NGC 5707
17.5" (6/18/93): moderately bright, edge-on 6:1 SW-NE, 2.0'x0.3', very bright compact round core, faint very thin extensions. A mag 14.5-15 star is off the SW tip 1.8' from center. Located 4.5' WSW of mag 7.4 SAO 29224.
Forms a double system with MCG +09-24-024 = PGC 52269 just beyond the NNE end, 1.5' from the center. The companion appeared extremely faint and small, round, just non-stellar. NGC 5707 has a redshift-based distance of ~100 million l.y., while MCG +09-24-024 resides at 600 million l.y., so they are not physically related.