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NGC5868

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 15:9:49.1
Declination: +0:31:49
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 13.4

Historic Information


Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1862
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational


Summary description: eF, II 545 s 3'
Sub-type: E-S0

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 5868 = NGC 5865, which see.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 5868 17.5" (5/10/91): faint, small, round, weak concentration, faint stellar nucleus. A mag 11 star lies 4.0' ENE. Forms a pair with NGC 5869 3.6' S.