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NGC5817
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 14:59:40.8
Declination: -16:10:50
Constellation: LIB
Visual Magnitude: 14.2
Historic Information
Discoverer: Stone
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 26.3
Observational
Summary description: vF, pS
Sub-type: S0
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 5817. See NGC 5816.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 5817
18" (6/21/09): faint, small, round, very weak concentration, 20" diameter. An extremely faint galaxy (possibly NGC 5816) lies 7.7' NE.
17.5" (6/30/00): faint, very small, round, 20"-25" diameter, weak concentration. Occasionally a very faint stellar nucleus was seen with direct vision. Collinear with two stars to the WSW [3.5' and 6'] and a 15th magnitude star close ENE [1.5'] is also on this line. MCG +03-38-042 lies 13' SE (see observation).
This galaxy is located 2.5 minutes of RA west of Ormond Stone's position and the NGC identification is uncertain (it may be NGC 5816 as Stone listed it as 3 magnitudes brighter than NGC 5817) .