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NGC5601

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 14:22:53.2
Declination: +40:18:36
Constellation: BOO
Visual Magnitude: 14.6

Historic Information

Discoverer: Ball
Year of discovery: 1867
Discovery aperture: 72.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, bet III 733 and 734
Sub-type: S?

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 5601.  See UGC 9216 in the "notngc" files.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5601

18" (7/2/11): faint, fairly small, slightly elongated N-S, 30"x20", very weak concentration.  Faintest of three NGC galaxies with NGC 5598 5' W and NGC 5603 4.4' NNE.  The faintest in the group is UGC 9216 situated 6.5' N.

17.5" (6/8/02): very faint, small, very elongated 3:1 N-S, 0.5'x0.15'.  Located 4.9' ESE of NGC 5598 and 4.3' SSW of NGC 5603 within a small group of galaxies.