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NGC5845

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 15:6:0.6
Declination: +1:38:1
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 12.5

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1786
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: vF, R
Sub-type: E3

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 5845 is a member of the NGC 5846 group, and was seen in the observations
of NGC 5846 and NGC 5846A.  The story is in the entry for NGC 5846A in the
"notngc" files.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5845

17.5" (5/10/91): fairly faint, extremely small, round, very small very bright core, extremely compact, about 20" diameter.  Appears like the bright nucleus of a galaxy without a halo.  Member of the NGC 5846 group with NGC 5846 8' ESE and NGC 5839 10' W.