- Description: A bright elliptical galaxy in Virgo. 5846 is the round galaxy just left of centre.
Magnitude 10, 3.5 x 3.5 arc minutes in size. To its right is barred spiral NGC5850, a bit fainter at
magnitude 10.7, larger at 4.6 x 4.1 arc minutes. In the lower left corner is edge-on spiral NGC5838,
magnitude 11.9 and 4.1 x 1.4 arc minutes in size.
- Film: Kodak hypered Tech Pan 2415
- Scope: 8" f6 Newtonian
- Guiding: Off-axis guider, manual.
- Exposure: 50 minutes
- Location: Wilson Coulee Observatory, Alberta.
- Date: 22 May, 1995
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