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NGC5541

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 14:16:31.7
Declination: +39:35:18
Constellation: BOO
Visual Magnitude: 12.7

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1788
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: cF, S, R, gbM, nf of 2
Sub-type: S?

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 5541.  See UGC 9077 and IC 990 in the "notngc" files, and IC 4394.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5541

17.5" (5/15/99): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 2:1 SSW-NNE, 0.8'x0.4', even surface brightness.  Nestled in an 8' string of mag 12-13 stars oriented WSW-ENE.  Forms a pair with NGC 5536 5.5' SSW.