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NGC5738

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 14:43:56.5
Declination: +1:36:13
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 13.9

Historic Information

Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 48.0

Observational

Summary description: F, S, bM
Sub-type: S0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5738

17.5" (6/18/93): faint, fairly small, very elongated 3:1 WSW-ENE, 0.9'x0.3'.  Two stars mag 14-15 are close following including a mag 14.5 star 1.3' ESE.  Forms a pair with NGC 5740 8.3' NE.