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NGC5969
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 15:34:50.9
Declination: +56:27:5
Constellation: DRA
Visual Magnitude: 14.4
Historic Information
Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1885
Discovery aperture: 16.0
Observational
Summary description: eS, R, stellar
Sub-type: E-S0
Steve's Notes
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NGC 5969
24" (7/8/13): at 375x appeared fairly faint, small, slightly elongated 4:3 ~N-S, 20"x15", very small bright nucleus. NGC 5971 lies 6.4' ENE. Also in a low power field are bright galaxies NGC 5963 and NGC 5965.
17.5" (5/22/93): very faint, very small, round, 0.3' diameter, very small slightly brighter core, small very faint halo. Located 9' NE of mag 8.2 SAO 29575. In a group with NGC 5971 6' ENE, NGC 5963 14' NW and NGC 5965 16' NNW.