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NGC5846
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 15:6:29.0
Declination: +1:36:19
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 10.0
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1786
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: vB, pL, R, psbMN, F * inv s, rr
Sub-type: E1
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 5846. See NGC 5846A in the "notngc" files.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 5846
24" (6/14/15): bright, fairly large, round, 1.8' diameter, sharply concentrated with a very bright core. The outer halo has a low surface brightness. NGC 5846A is on the south side of the halo [44" from center]. It appeared as a fairly faint compact glow, round, 15" diameter, fairly high surface brightness. A much fainter mag 15.5 star is superimposed 25" N of center. NGC 5850 lies 10' SE.
17.5" (5/10/91): bright, moderately large, oval 3:2 NNW-SSE, 3'x2', evenly concentrated as halo brightens down to a small bright core but no nucleus, fainter halo. Forms a contact pair with NGC 5846A (appears as a mag 13.5 "star") embedded in the southern portion of halo 40" from the center! Brightest in a group with NGC 5850 10' ESE and NGC 5845 8' WNW.