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NGC5916
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 15:21:37.8
Declination: -13:10:9
Constellation: LIB
Visual Magnitude: 13.2
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1836
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: F, S, lE, glbM, f of 2
Sub-type: SBa/P
Steve's Notes
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NGC 5916
18" (6/17/04): fairly faint, moderately large, elongated 2:1 SSW-NNE, 1.3'x0.6'. Broad concentration to a slightly brighter, irregularly round 25" core. The outer halo has a pretty low surface brightness. In a trio with slightly brighter NGC 5915 4.7' WNW and much fainter NGC 5916A 7' NW.
NGC 5916A appeared very faint, very elongated 3:1 NW-SE, 1.0'x0.3', low even surface brightness. A mag 12 star on the NW edge of the galaxy hampers the view!
17.5" (5/30/92): very faint, fairly small, elongated 2:1 N-S, low even surface brightness. The major axis is elongated at a right angle to NGC 5915 located 4.5' WNW.