Based on a recessional velocity of 2595 km/sec, NGC 5950 is about 115 million light years away, in reasonable agreement with redshift-independent distance estimates of 120 to 130 million light years. Given that and its apparent size of 1.5 by 0.8 arcmin, it is about 45 thousand light years across.

Per Dreyer, NGC 5953 is "pretty bright, considerably small, preceding of double nebula", the other being NGC 5954. Apparent size 1.6 by 1.3 arcmin.

Per Dreyer, NGC 5954 is "pretty bright, considerably small, following of double nebula", the other being NGC 5953, which see for images. Apparent size 1.1 by 0.5 arcmin.

Per Dreyer, NGC 5979 (= John Herschel's GC 4125, 1860 RA 15 34 54, NPD 150 46.4) is "a remarkable object, a planetary nebula, pretty faint, very small, round, (possibly?) mottled but not resolved, among 150 stars". The second IC lists a corrected RA (per Howe) of 15 35 54, with the note "error of reduction in the GC". The corrected position precesses to RA 15 47 42.3, Dec -61 12 56, within 0.2 arcmin of the center of the nebula, so the identification is certain. Distance estimates for NGC 5979 range from about 9 to 12 thousand light years. Given that and its apparent size of about 0.25 arcmin, it is a little over 2/3 of a light year (or about 4 to 5 trillion miles) across.

Above, a 12 arcmin wide region near NGC 5979 (the overexposed blob at the center). Below, a HST closeup of the planetary nebula (Image Credits: ESA, ESO and NASA.) The color-coded numbers at lower left represent the wavelengths used for this false-color multispectral image. A wide-band near-infrared image (centered at 814 nanometers) is shown in red, a "forbidden" line of ionized nitrogen (at 658 nanometers) is shown in yellow, a wide-band green image (centered at 555 nanometers) is shown in green, and a "forbidden" line of doubly ionized oxygen (at 502 nanometers) is shown in purple.

Per Dreyer, NGC 5992 is "very faint, very small, round, brighter middle, southwestern of 2", the other being NGC 5993. The galaxy's middle is relatively bright, leading to its classification as a starburst galaxy. Based on a recessional velocity of 9520 km/sec, NGC 5992 is about 440 million light years away. Given that and its 0.9 by 0.7 arcmin apparent size, it is about 115 thousand light years across. Aside from being in nearly the same direction as NGC 5993, NGC 5992 has nearly the same recessional velocity (and therefore, nearly the same estimated distance), and there is the faintest hint of a stellar stream extending between the two galaxies; so they are almost certainly a gravitationally interacting pair.

Per Dreyer, NGC 5993 is "considerably faint, very small, round, brighter middle, northeastern of 2", the other being NGC 5992. Based on a recessional velocity of 9565 km/sec, NGC 5993 is about 440 million light years away. Given that and its 1.2 by 0.9 arcmin apparent size, it is about 150 thousand light years across. Aside from being in nearly the same direction as NGC 5992, NGC 5993 has nearly the same recessional velocity (and therefore, nearly the same estimated distance), and there is the faintest hint of a stellar stream extending between the two galaxies; so they are almost certainly a gravitationally interacting pair.

A 3 arcmin wide group of stars with no really bright stars, this open cluster is reportedly easy to see visually, but in photographs it is hard to discern against the background of the Milky Way.

Above, a 12 arcmin wide region near NGC 5999. The catalog position is for the brighter stars at the top of the roughly circular grouping of stars at the center of the image. (Image Credit and Copyright: Daniel Verschatse, Observatorio Antilhue, Chile; used by permission)