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NGC5788

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 14:53:16.8
Declination: +52:2:41
Constellation: BOO
Visual Magnitude: 14.7

Historic Information

Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1887
Discovery aperture: 16.0

Observational

Summary description: eeF, S, R, v diffic, sf of 2
Sub-type: S

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 5788 is actually the south-preceding of a pair of galaxies, not the south-
following (the other, brighter galaxy is NGC 5783 = NGC 5785, which see).  At
least this is the obvious solution to the mess in Swift's 6th list and the 
NGC.  It requires Swift to have confused his positions and orientations, 
something that happened more than once in his observations of nebulae.  

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5788

17.5" (6/18/93): extremely faint, very small, round, just visible continuously with averted, low even surface brightness.  A mag 14 star is 2.1' W.  Located 2.6' SW of NGC 5783.  Identified as NGC 5788 in the RNGC, NGC 2000 and DSFG although the identification is uncertain.