Galaxy · constellation Se1
NGC 5942
NGC 5942MCG +01-40-001PGC 55309
Catalogue data
- Right ascension
- 15h 31m 36.8s
- Declination
- +7° 18' 45"
- Size
- 42.6″ × 40.2″
- Position angle
- 80°
- Magnitude
- 15.3 (B)
- Surface brightness
- 23.40 mag/arcsec²
- Hubble type
- E
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Suggested techniques
- LRGB, RGB, OSC
- Data source
- OpenNGC
Sometimes called NGC 5941.
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