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NGC5950

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 15:31:30.6
Declination: +40:25:50
Constellation: BOO
Visual Magnitude: 13.8

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: vF, S, R, S * np
Sub-type: Sb

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5950

17.5" (7/15/93): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 3:2 SSW-NNE.  A mag 13.5 star is just at the north edge of the halo 1.0' from center. A nice right triangle of three brighter stars is about 5' SW with mag 9 SAO 45583 at the vertex with a mag 10 star 40" N and a mag 11 star 50" E.