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NGC5493
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 14:11:29.4
Declination: -5:2:38
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 11.4
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1787
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: pB, vS, R, psmbM*, * 18 inv
Sub-type: S0
Steve's Notes
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NGC 5493
18" (5/28/06): fairly bright, fairly small, elongated 3:2 NW-SE. Sharply concentrated with a small bright nucleus surrounded by a low surface brightness halo ~1.1x0.8'.
17.5" (4/5/97): fairly bright, moderately large. Sharply concentrated with a very bright core 40"x15" elongated WNW-ESE, increasing to a stellar nucleus. Surrounding the core is a much fainter ill-defined halo ~1.3'x1.0' which is not as elongated as the core.
8" (6/30/84): fairly bright, very small, slightly elongated, bright stellar nucleus.