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NGC5944
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 15:31:47.6
Declination: +7:18:29
Constellation: SER
Visual Magnitude: 15.0
Historic Information
Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1887
Discovery aperture: 16.0
Observational
Summary description: eeF, S, R, 4th of 4
Sub-type: Sbc
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 5944. See NGC 5941.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 5944
18" (8/3/05): at 257x appeared faint to very faint, small, elongated 2:1 WNW-ESE though took some effort to make out the elongation, 0.5'x0.25', low fairly even surface brightness. Second brightest in quartet and eastern vertex of the small rectangular grouping of HCG 76.
17.5" (7/7/94): very faint, round, 30" diameter, weak concentration, slightly brighter core. Second brightest in the HCG 76 with MCG +01-40-002 = HCG 76D 1.8' SW, NGC 5941 2.6' NW and NGC 5942 2.7' W.