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NGC5879
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 15:9:46.8
Declination: +57:0:2
Constellation: DRA
Visual Magnitude: 11.6
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1788
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: cB, S, E, mbMRN, r
Sub-type: Sbc
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 5879. See NGC 5866.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 5879
17.5" (7/15/93): fairly bright, fairly large, very elongated 3:1 in PA 0¡, 3.0'x1.0'. Contains a prominent elongated core with a faint stellar nucleus. The fainter elongated halo also extends the minor axis. A mag 14 star is at the west edge 0.7' from the center. Located 7.5' SE of mag 7.2 SAO 29427.
8" (6/19/82): faint, very elongated N-S, thin, small bright nucleus. A mag 7 star is 7' NW.