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NGC5821

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 14:58:59.8
Declination: +53:55:24
Constellation: BOO
Visual Magnitude: 13.6

Historic Information


Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1789
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational


Summary description: vF, S
Sub-type: S?

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 5821 18" (5/3/08): This is the fainter northeast galaxy forming Arp 136. At 280x it appeared faint, moderately large, elongated ~2:1 NW-SE, 1.1'x0.6', low even surface brightness. Located 3.7' NE of NGC 5820 and 6' NW a wide bright pair of mag 7 stars. It helped to keep this bright pair outside the field. 17.5" (5/23/87): very faint, diffuse, elongated NW-SE. Two bright stars ADS 9474 = 6.8/7.4 at 40" located 6' SE interfere with viewing. Located 3.7' NE of brighter NGC 5820.