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NGC5344

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 13:50:12.0
Declination: +73:57:12
Constellation: UMI
Visual Magnitude: 14.5

Historic Information

Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 16.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, S, R
Sub-type: S

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 5344.  The NGC RA -- but not Swift's original RA -- is a minute of time 
too small.  Nevertheless, the galaxy is far enough north that none of the
cataloguers have had any trouble assigning the number to the right object.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5344

17.5" (6/5/99): faint, very small, round, 25" diameter, even surface brightness.  Located 2.8' following a mag 10 star and 8' ENE of mag 8.5 SAO 7884.