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NGC5444
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 14:3:24.1
Declination: +35:7:57
Constellation: CVN
Visual Magnitude: 11.9
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1785
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: pB, pL, ivlE, vsmbM
Sub-type: E2
Steve's Notes
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NGC 5444
13.1" (6/18/85): moderately bright, small, round, bright core, stellar nucleus, NGC 5445 6.6' SSE. At low power forms the northern vertex of a near equilateral triangle with mag 8.6 SAO 63906 15' SW and mag 9.2 SAO 63915 13' SSE.
8" (5/26/84): fairly faint, small, round, small bright nucleus. Forms an equilateral triangle with two moderately bright stars to the south.