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NGC5850
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 15:7:7.5
Declination: +1:32:39
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 10.8
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1786
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: cF, S, lE, psbM
Sub-type: SBb
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 5850. See NGC 5846A in the "notngc" files.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 5850
24" (6/14/15): at 200x; moderately bright and large, slightly elongated, sharply concentrated with a relatively large bright core ~30" in diameter. A very faint bar stretches northwest to southeast from the bright core, with a total diameter of 2'. The bar is within an extremely faint halo (ring on images). The bar is easier to see at 260x. Forms a prominent pair with NGC 5846 10' NW.
17.5" (5/10/91): fairly faint, moderately large, slightly elongated. Unusual appearance as the large bright core dominates the galaxy but there are very faint larger extensions (this is the central bar) very elongated 3:1 WNW-ESE clearly seen with averted. There is a very large difference between the surface brightness of the core and the bar! Two mag 12 stars lie 2' N. A mag 11 star 5.5' NW is midway between NGC 5850 and NGC 5846 which lies 10' WNW.