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NGC5545
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 14:17:4.8
Declination: +36:34:29
Constellation: BOO
Visual Magnitude: 15.0
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1827
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: E, lbM, D neb or biN
Sub-type: Sbc
Steve's Notes
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NGC 5545
18" (5/3/08): this galaxy forms the eastern component of an interacting, contact pair (Arp 199) with NGC 5544 attached at the WSW end. At 280x it appeared fairly faint, fairly small, very elongated 3:1 SW-NE, 0.9'x0.3', weak concentration. NGC 5544 appears as a brighter knot attached at the preceding end! NGC 5557 lies 17' ESE.
17.5" (3/23/85): double system elongated WSW-ENE and attached to NGC 5544 at the WSW end, 0.6' between centers. Appears larger than NGC 5544. The two systems are separated by just a small darker region of lower surface brightness but are not cleanly resolved.