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NGC5813
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 15:1:11.1
Declination: +1:42:7
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 10.5
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1786
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: B, pS, R, psmbM
Sub-type: E1
Steve's Notes
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NGC 5813
17.5" (5/10/91): bright, fairly small, slightly elongated 4:3 NW-SE, high surface brightness, increases to a small bright core, substellar nucleus. Located at the exact center of a diamond asterism formed by two mag 12 stars 2.8' W and 2.6' E and two mag 12/13 stars 2.9' N and 3.0' S! NGC 5813 is a member of the NGC 5846 group with NGC 5814 5' SE. Located 35' SW of 109 Virginis (V = 4.4).
8": fairly faint, small, round, small bright nucleus. Surrounded by four stars of similar magnitudes!