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NGC5873

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 15:12:50.7
Declination: -38:7:31
Constellation: LUP
Visual Magnitude: 11.0

Historic Information


Discoverer: Copeland
Year of discovery: 1883
Discovery aperture: 6.1

Observational


Summary description: planetary, stellar = 9.5 mag
Sub-type: PN

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 5873 13.1" (3/17/86): appears stellar at 79x and quite prominent with an OIII filter. Barely non-stellar disc seen at 166x. Forms a near equilateral triangle with fainter mag 12 stars 1.8' W and 2.1' S. Estimate mag V = 11.5.