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NGC5743

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 14:45:10.9
Declination: -20:54:47
Constellation: LIB
Visual Magnitude: 12.9

Historic Information

Discoverer: Leavenworth
Year of discovery: 1885
Discovery aperture: 26.3

Observational

Summary description: F, S, mE, smbMN
Sub-type: Sb

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5743

18" (5/29/05): moderately bright, moderately large, elongated nearly 3:1 E-W, 1.2'x0.4', broad concentration.  Larger and brighter of a close pair with NGC 5743 2.6' N.