NGC 5724

SDSS image of the star (in the center)

NGC 5724 is a single star in the Bear Guardian constellation ( right ascension : 14: 39: 02.1; declination : +46: 41: 32). On April 16, 1855, RJ Mitchell , an assistant to William Parsons , mistakenly mistook it for a galaxy during an observation and thus gained an entry in the catalog.

Web links

• NGC 5724. SIMBAD, accessed April 17, 2016 . 
• NGC 5724. DSO Browser, accessed April 17, 2016 . 
• Courtney Seligman: New General Catalog Objects: NGC 5700 - 5749. Retrieved April 17, 2016 . 
• Hartmut Frommert: Revised NGC Data for NGC 5724. SEDS, accessed on April 17, 2016 (English). 
• Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 5724. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed April 17, 2016 .