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NGC5358

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 13:54:0.4
Declination: +40:16:40
Constellation: CVN
Visual Magnitude: 13.6

Historic Information


Discoverer: Stephan
Year of discovery: 1880
Discovery aperture: 31.0

Observational


Summary description: vF, vS, R, 2 vF st inv
Sub-type: S0-a

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 5358 24" (7/1/16): faintest member of the HCG 68 quintet. At 260x; fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 2:1, 25"x12", very small bright core, stellar nucleus. A pair of mag 12.5/13 stars at ~8" separation is 1.1' SSE and nearly collinear with the galaxy. 24" (6/8/13): faintest and last member of HCG 68. Appeared fairly faint to moderately bright, fairly small, very elongated 3:1 NW-SE, 40"x15", small brighter nucleus. Located 6.4' E of NGC 5353. 13.1" (5/26/84): faintest member of the NGC 5353 group = HCG 68. Very faint, very small, very elongated NW-SE. A close double mag 13 double star at 8" separation is 1.1' SSE. Located 6.4' E of NGC 5353 and 4.7' SE of NGC 5355.