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NGC5360

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 13:55:38.4
Declination: +4:59:0
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 13.3

Historic Information

Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 48.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, vS, lE
Sub-type: SB0-a

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 5360 is probably IC 958, which see.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5360

17.5" (4/28/90): faint, fairly small, elongated 2:1 WSW-ENE, 1.2'x0.6'.  A mag 14 star is at the west edge 40" from center.  Forms a pair with brighter and larger NGC 5364 8' ENE.  Fourth of 7 in the NGC 5363 group.