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NGC5961

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 15:35:16.2
Declination: +30:51:51
Constellation: CRB
Visual Magnitude: 14.1

Historic Information

Discoverer: Stephan
Year of discovery: 1880
Discovery aperture: 31.0

Observational

Summary description: pF, S, E pf
Sub-type: Sb

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5961

17.5" (7/15/93): fairly faint, fairly small, very elongated 3:1 WNW-ESE, 0.9'x0.3', fairly high even surface brightness.  A mag 12.5 star is just 0.9' ENE of center.  Forms a pair with UGC 9920 3.7' S.