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NGC5917
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 15:21:32.5
Declination: -7:22:39
Constellation: LIB
Visual Magnitude: 13.0
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1835
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: eF, vS, psbM
Sub-type: Sb
Steve's Notes
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NGC 5917
17.5" (7/9/94): moderately bright, fairly small, elongated 3:2 WSW-ENE, brighter along the major axis. A mag 15 star is just off the SW edge. Forms an interacting pair (Arp 254) with MCG -01-39-003 4.2' S. Located 4' NNE of a mag 10 star.
MCG -01-39-003 (nicknamed the "Hooked Galaxy") appeared faint, small, slightly elongated, weak concentration. A mag 10 star is 1.8' ESE. On deep images MCG -01-39-003 has two tidal tails, with a long one stretching north about 2/3 of the way to NGC 5917 and then hooking east at the end.