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NGC5881

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 15:6:20.6
Declination: +62:58:50
Constellation: DRA
Visual Magnitude: 13.4

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1789
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: pF, cS, R, vgbM
Sub-type: S?

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 5881 = IC 1100.  Dreyer (1912) notes that the minute of the 1860 RA should 
be 4, not 6.  This still leaves the NGC position about a minute of time off 
IC 1100, but there is no other reasonable match.  The IC position is not too 
good (Swift again), but the galaxy is a high surface brightness spiral, and 
the identification is reasonably secure.  RC3 and RNGC are incorrect.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5881

17.5" (6/14/96): faint, fairly small, elongated 4:3 WSW-ENE, 40"x30", weak concentration.  Bracketed by a mag 13 star 52" SW of center and a mag 12 star 1.8' NNE.  NGC identification uncertain (poor position from WH) and this galaxy is identified as IC 1100 (from Swift) in UGC, MCG, CGCG and RC3.