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NGC5964
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 15:37:36.2
Declination: +5:58:25
Constellation: SER
Visual Magnitude: 11.9
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1830
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: eF, vL, R, vgbM, r
Sub-type: SBcd
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 5964 = IC 4551, which see. There is nothing wrong with d'A's observation
of this large, nearby galaxy. But Swift's position, from over a third of a
century later, is well off. His description, though, is as appropriate as
d'A's.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 5964
17.5" (7/3/97): fairly faint, fairly large, irregular glow, ~2.5' to no well-defined edges. Contains a brighter core that is also ill-defined but appears elongated (bar). This face-on galaxy has an unusual mottled appearance with brighter spots with averted vision (extremely faint superimposed stars?). A couple of faint stars are clearly superimposed which also confuse the view including a mag 14.5 star off the north edge and a mag 15 star (double on DSS) is within the south side of the halo.