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NGC5918

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 15:19:25.1
Declination: +45:52:49
Constellation: BOO
Visual Magnitude: 13.2

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1830
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: cF, L, pmE, glbM, ** s
Sub-type: Sc

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5918

17.5" (7/15/93): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 2:1 E-W,1.4'x0.7', weak concentration.  A nice unequal double star (mag 10.5/13) at 16" separation is 2.8' SSW of center.