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NGC 5746

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Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) Image Information for  NGC 5746
DSS Acknowledgement ,  DSS Copyright Notice DSS Image Generation:  1st Generation DSS Image
Image Center (2000):  14h 44m 55.9s; +01º 57' 21"Image File Name:  n5746.jpg
Image Size (arcminutes):  10' x 10'Image Size (pixels):  353 x 353
Original NGC Catalogue Data for  NGC 5746
General Catalogue Designation:  3987William Herschel Designation:  I 126
John Herschel Designation:  1874Other Observers:  ...
Right Ascension (Equinox 1860):  14h 37m 50sAnnual RA Precession (Equinox 1880):  +3.04s
North Polar Declination (Equinox 1860):  87° 27.1'Annual DEC Precession (Equinox 1880):  +15.4"
Summary Description:  B, L, vmE 170°, bmMN
Notes:  Comments:  
Discovered by:  Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel (1738 - 1822)Year of Discovery:  1786
Telescope Aperture (Inches):  18.7Telescope Type:  Reflector
Understanding the 'Summary Description':  Summary Description Abbreviations List
Contemporary/Current Data for  NGC 5746
Right Ascension (2000):  14h 44m 55.9sDeclination (2000):  +01º 57' 21"
Object Type:  GalaxyObject Classification:  Sb
Constellation:  VirgoPosition Angle:  170 °
Visual Magnitude:  10.8Surface Brightness:  13.1
Blue Magnitude:  11.4Object Size:  7.4'X1.3'
Also Cataloged As:  UGC 9499, MCG+00-38-005, CGCG 020.012, H I-126, h 1874,
GC 3987, KCPG 434B, IRAS 14424+0209, PGC 52665, LGG 386-005
Catalogue Notes:  Paired with NGC 5740.
Book / Chart References for NGC 5746
Luginbuhl & Skiff (Page):  279Burnham's (Volume : Page):  ------
Uranometria 2000:  243Herald-Bobroff Astroatlas:  C-46
Microsky:  622GSC Small Region Number:  326
POSS Blue Plate #:  1613POSS Red Plate #:  1613
Database Update Level: 2 (Complete)
Contemporary Visual Observation(s) for NGC 5746
NGC 5746 = UGC 09499 = MCG +00-38-005 = CGCG 020-012 = LGG 386-005 = PGC 52665
14 44 55.8 +01 57 19
V = 10.3;  Size 7.4x1.3;  SB = 12.6;  PA = 170d

17.5": beautiful edge-on ~N-S, bright, fairly large, 4.5'x0.7', small bright 
core.  A mag 15 star is at the S end 2' from the center.  A dust lane evident as 
a sharp light cut-off along the E edge.  Located 5' SSE of mag 8.2 SAO 120633 
and 20' WNW of 109 Virginis (V = 3.7).

The RNGC declination is 10' too far S.

- by Steve Gottlieb

Data Sources Used to research NGC 5746
[NGC] New General Catalogue / [IC] Index Catalogue (Dreyer - 1888, 1895, 1908)
[OHCDSO] Observing Handbook and Catalog of Deep-Sky Objects (Luginbuhl & Skiff - 1990)
[RE-NGCDDB] NGC Discoverer's Database (Erdmann 1990 - 2006)
[UGC] Uppsala General Catalog of Galaxies (Nilson - 1973)
[RNGCA] RNGC Errata (Archinal)
[CGCG] Catalog of Galaxies & Clusters of Galaxies (Zwicky - 1968)
[RE-AZDB] The Arizona Database®, V15.5 (Erdmann - 1987 thru 2006)
[HC-PPL] NGC/IC Accurate Positions List Database (Corwin - 1996 thru 2006)
[SG-NGCO] NGC/IC Observations Database (Gottlieb - 1998 thru 2006)
[PGC] Principle Galaxy Catalog (Paturel et al. - 1989, 2003)
[MCG] Morphological Catalog of Galaxies (Vorontsov-Velyaminov et al - 1962 thru 1968)
[DSS] Digitized Sky Survey - 1st (102 CD-ROM) and 2nd (Web Site) Generation (STScI - 1994)
[NED] NASA's Extragalactic Database (NED) located at http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/

Additional Notes
1st generation images were generated from the 102 CD-ROM version of the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS)
2nd generation images were generated at the DSS web site located at http://archive.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/dsswin
Luginbuhl & Skiff page numbers are from 'Observing Handbook and Catalogue of Deep-Sky Objects' by Christian B. Luginbuhl and Brian A. Skiff, produced by Cambridge University Press
Burnham's refers to 'Burnham's Celestial Handbook' in three volumes produced by Dover Publications, Inc.
Uranometria 2000 chart numbers are for those printings authored by Tirion, Rappaport & Lovi, and are not for the most recent printings authored by Tirion, Rappaport & Remaklus in which the charts were re-numbered, all of which were and/or are produced by Willmann-Bell, Inc.
The Herald-Bobroff Astroatlas is by D. Herald and P. Bobroff of Canberra, Australia and is produced by HB2000 Publications
Microsky® is the microfiche rendition of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS) produced by Deen Publications (P.O. Box 867088; Plano Texas 75086)
POSS refers to the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey produced by The National Geographic Society in conjunction with The California Institute of Technology
All DSS image annotation was performed by Robert E. Erdmann, Jr., and is ©Copyright 1996 through 2008 by Robert E. Erdmann, Jr. - All rights reserved
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Contemporary/Current Data for this object was hand collected and entered from the data sources listed in the "Data Sources Used" section of this table above.- Robert E. Erdmann, Jr.


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