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NGC5875

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 15:9:13.1
Declination: +52:31:41
Constellation: BOO
Visual Magnitude: 12.4

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1788
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: pB, pL, lE
Sub-type: Sb

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5875

17.5" (5/23/87): moderately bright, fairly small, elongated NW-SE, brighter core.  Forms a pair with much fainter CGCG 274-026 ("very faint, very small, elongated 2:1 NNW-SSE") 5.6' SSW.