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NGC5410
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 14:0:54.5
Declination: +40:59:17
Constellation: CVN
Visual Magnitude: 13.1
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1787
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: pF, pS, bM
Sub-type: SB?
Steve's Notes
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NGC 5410
17.5" (7/16/01): faint, fairly small, elongated 3:2 WSW-ENE, 1.0'x0.6', weak concentration. There is a mag 15.5 star just off the western edge. Located 2.2' SE of a mag 12.5 star and 12' NE of mag 8.7 SAO 44838.
Forms a close pair with UGC 8932 1.2' NE of center. The companion appeared extremely faint, small, very elongated ~4:1 in the direction of NGC 5410, ~0.5'x0.1', very low surface brightness.