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NGC5914

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 15:18:43.7
Declination: +41:51:55
Constellation: BOO
Visual Magnitude: 14.4

Historic Information

Discoverer: Stephan
Year of discovery: 1882
Discovery aperture: 31.0

Observational

Summary description: F, vS, R, F st inv
Sub-type: Sb

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5914

17.5" (7/15/93): faint, small, elongated 3:2 NNW-SSE, 0.5'x0.3', very small bright core, stellar nucleus.  Located 11' NNW of mag 7.9 SAO 45483.  NGC 5914B (double system), just 1.5' N, was not seen.