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NGC 5377
NGC 5377, LEDA 49563, MCG+08-25-052, UGC 8863, I 187, h 1712, GC 3716
Type: galaxy, SBa
Mag: B=12.5, V=?
Size: 3.548′ x 1.659′
PA: 20°
Historical observations
William Herschel
Synonyms:H I-187
Discovered in 1787 by William Herschel with an 18.7-inch f/13 speculum telescope. He called it "cB, extended 30 degrees sp-nf, BN, vg faint branch."
Published comments
Burnham's Celestial Handbook
Burnham calls it a 12th mag spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici, measuring 3' x 0.6', which he describes as "bright, large, much elongated, suddenly brighter in the middle to a nucleus, has an outer ring."
Sulentic & Tifft (1973)
The RNGC (Sulentic and Tifft 1973) notes that this is a 12.0 mag galaxy. Their coded description reads EL,BM,DIFWINGS.
de Vaucouleurs, G. et al. (1991) Third Ref. Cat. of Bright Galaxies (RC3)
This galaxy is listed in the "Third Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies" as having an outer ring of 3.65 arcminute diameter.
Modern observations
Tom Lorenzin
Tom Lorenzin, in the e-version of "1000+ The Amateur Astronomers' Field Guide to Deep Sky Observing", notes: "12M; 3' x 0.6' extent; soft slash with axis oriented NE-SW and stellar core; 9M star 11' to SW."
Brian Skiff
POSS: pa42, but non-dominating core in pa13. a highly-inclined barred
spiral.
6cm - reg[istered?] [regularly vis?] w/averted vis but no pa. 2' diam.
15cm - 1'.5x0'.5 in pa30. *ry texture. *ar nuc.
25cm - up to 3'x0'.5, core brtr and somewhat oval while halo is spindly.
30cm - not vbr halo, but core easy. 2'x0'.6 in pa30. core shows elong w/pointy
ends. steady br sub*ar nuc.
Walter Scott Houston
Houston writes that this galaxy "rarely makes it to print" and lies just off the handle of the Big Dipper. It is "unmistakable as a galaxy in my 4-inch Clark ... remember to keep the magnification up, since my 5-inch scope with its fixed 20x has a much more difficult time with the galaxy than does the 4-inch at 60x." He also noted: "This galaxy is well seen in a 3-inch at 50x but harder in a 5-inch moonwatch at 20x."
Contemporary observations
Tom Bryant
2011 6 7 0:24:30
Observing site: Little Bennett Regional Park
Telescope: C-11
[13h 56m 18s, 47° 14m 0s] A nice edge on. B: Sa.
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