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NGC5731

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 14:40:9.3
Declination: +42:46:45
Constellation: BOO
Visual Magnitude: 13.2

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1787
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: vF, eS, lE
Sub-type: Sbc

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 5731; is it IC 1045?  See NGC 5730 for a CGCG confusion.  See IC 1045 for 
a Swift confusion.  The identity with NGC 5731 is not in doubt, but there is 
some concerning IC 1045.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5731

17.5" (6/27/98): faint, moderately large, very elongated NW-SE, 1.0'x0.25', weakly concentrated.  A mag 13 star lies 1.5' NW of center.  Forms a close pair of edge-ons with NGC 5730 3' SW.