NGC 5005 (UGC 8256, 1308+3719)

NGC 5005 (UGC 8256, 1308+3719) -- This is a bright Sbc galaxy with a LINER nucleus (Ho et al . 1996a). We have compared the gross features of the UV image to a narrow-band ground-based H image, and verified that the faint diffuse emission that appears several arcseconds west of the center in the UV image is in fact the nucleus of the galaxy. The knot of UV sources on the south-east edge of the image corresponds in the ground-based image to an H knot. There may be a very faint compact V-shaped source of UV emission on top of the diffuse nuclear emission, but this requires confirmation at higher S/N.