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NGC 5959
NGC 5959MCG -03-40-002PGC 55625
Catalogue data
- Right ascension
- 15h 37m 22.4s
- Declination
- -16° 35' 45"
- Size
- 2.1′ × 1.4′
- Position angle
- 1°
- Magnitude
- 14.8 (B)
- Surface brightness
- 24.86 mag/arcsec²
- Hubble type
- E
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Suggested techniques
- LRGB, RGB, OSC
- Data source
- OpenNGC
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