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NGC5869

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 15:9:49.4
Declination: +0:28:13
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 11.9

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: pF, S, E, psbM
Sub-type: S0

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 5869.  See NGC 5871.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5869

17.5" (5/10/91): moderately bright, fairly small, very faint halo elongated 4:3 NW-SE, very bright core, stellar nucleus.  Brighter and larger of pair with NGC 5865 3.6' N.  This galaxy is incorrectly identified as NGC 5865 in the RNGC.