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NGC5951
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 15:33:43.1
Declination: +15:0:27
Constellation: SER
Visual Magnitude: 12.7
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1787
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: F, pS, E 150° ±
Sub-type: SBc
Steve's Notes
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NGC 5951
24" (6/8/13): fairly faint to moderately bright, large, excellent thin edge-on N-S, 2.4'x0.4'. Brighter along a thin strip of the major axis (like a very thin bar) and brightens slightly in the central 0.3'. The extensions fade out towards the tips. First in the KTG 62 triplet with NGC 5953/5954 = Arp 91 = VV 244 17' NE. Located 7' SW of a mag 9.1 star.
17.5" (7/7/94): faint, moderately large, edge-on 5:1 SSW-NNE, 3.0'x0.6', fairly low surface brightness, broad concentration with slightly brighter middle and very faint extensions. Located 7.0' SW of mag 8.9 SAO 101619. NGC 5953/NGC 5954 pair is 17' NE.