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NGC5838
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 15:5:26.0
Declination: +2:5:56
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 10.9
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1786
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: pB, pS
Sub-type: E-S0
Steve's Notes
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NGC 5838
17.5" (7/15/93): bright, large, very elongated 7:2 SW-NE, 3.5'x1.0'. Dominated by a very bright core, stellar nucleus just visible, long fainter extensions. The southwest extension heads towards a bright wide double star 6' SW of core (mag 8.3 SAO 120829 and a mag 11 companion at 46"). A mag 14 star is just west of the SW extension 2.3' from the center. Located 38' E of 110 Virginis (V = 4.4).