A close double star, components are
mag. 2.5 and 4.9. Separation of 2.8 arc seconds in P.A. 339°. Yellowish-orange and blue in colour.
NGC 5248
13hr 38m
+08° 53'
The brightest galaxy in Bootes, it will
require a night of good transparency with smaller scopes. An Sc spiral, mag.
10.2, 6.5 x 5.3 arc minutes. Spiral structure visible with larger scopes. (Boo)
x Bootes
14hr 51m
+19° 06'
An easy double star with 8 arc second
separation in P.A. 230°. Components are mags. 4.7 and7.0, yellow and red-orange in colour.
A loose, class XII globular cluster.
Magnitude 9.1, 9 arc minutes in diameter. Difficult with smaller instruments. (110NGC) (Boo)
NGC 5523
14hr 15m
+25° 19'
An edge-on, Sb spiral galaxy, with a blue
magnitude of 12.9. 4.6 x 1.2 arc minutes in size. (Boo)
NGC 5676
14hr 33m
+49° 28'
A brighter Sc spiral, mag. 10.9, 3.9 x 2.0 arc minutes (Boo)
NGC 5929 and NGC 5930
15hr 26m
+41° 41'
A pair of interacting 13.1 magnitude
spiral galaxies. Sizes are 1.1 x 1, and 2.0 x 1.0 arc minutes, respectively. (Boo)
NGC 5544 and NGC 5545
14hr 17m
+36° 34'
Another pair of interacting mag. 13.2
spiral galaxies. 1.1 x1.1 and 1.3 x 0.5 arc minutes respectively. Look for 11th
mag E1 galaxy NGC 5557 located in the same low power field, 17.4 arc minutes WSW. (Boo)
NGC 5958
15hr 35m
+28° 40'
One of the brightest Corona galaxies, at mag.
13. Only 1.1 x 1 arc minutes in size. (CrB)
