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NGC5820

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 14:58:39.9
Declination: +53:53:9
Constellation: BOO
Visual Magnitude: 12.5

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1788
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: B, E 90° ±, sbM, B D * f 8'
Sub-type: S0

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 5820.  Hunter found a double galaxy near this in April 1861.  See the 
entry under SBS 1457+540 in the "notngc" files.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5820

18" (5/3/08): brighter member of a 3.6' pair with NGC 5821.  At 280x it appeared bright, moderately large, elongated 2:1 E-W, 1.1'x0.5', contains a small bright core.  Located 8' WNW of SHJ 191 = 6.8/7.6 at 40".  It helped to keep this bright pair out of the field while observing NGC 5821.

17.5" (5/23/87): moderately bright, small, elongated 2:1 E-W, bright core.  Forms a pair with NGC 5821 3.7' NE.  Located 8' W of the wide double star ADS 9474 = 6.8/7.4 at 40".