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NGC5994
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 15:46:53.2
Declination: +17:52:23
Constellation: SER
Visual Magnitude: 14.8
Historic Information
Discoverer: Stoney B.
Year of discovery: 1851
Discovery aperture: 72.0
Observational
Summary description: S, sp II 97
Sub-type: SBbc
Steve's Notes
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NGC 5994
48" (5/15/12): at 488x appeared fairly faint to moderately bright, small, elongated 2:1 E-W, 20"x10", gradually brightens to the center. This galaxy is the fainter member of the interacting pair Arp 72, and is situated just 1.5' from the center of NGC 5996. A spiral arm from the NGC 5996 hooks southwest towards NGC 5994, but the pair is not connected.
17.5" (5/14/88): fainter member of an interacting system with NGC 5996 (Arp 72). Very faint, extremely small. Appears as a barely non-stellar knot just 1.5' SW of the center of NGC 5996. A mag 14 star lies 1.3' SE.