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NGC5975
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 15:39:58.0
Declination: +21:28:14
Constellation: SER
Visual Magnitude: 14.2
Historic Information
Discoverer: Stephan
Year of discovery: 1882
Discovery aperture: 31.0
Observational
Summary description: vF, vS, irrR, sev vF st inv
Sub-type: Sbc
Steve's Notes
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NGC 5975
24" (7/21/12): fairly faint, fairly small, very elongated N-S, ~40"x16", slightly brighter along the major axis but no well defined core. Located on the south side of AGC 2107 (in the foreground) and 8' NW of mag 8.4 HD 139952. CGCG 136-050, located 3.7' NE, appeared faint to fairly faint, small, slightly elongated NNW-SSE, 20"x15", broad weak concentration. A mag 11 star is 1.3' SSE.
17.5" (4/7/89): faint, small, very elongated N-S, poorly concentrated.