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NGC5020

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 13:12:39.8
Declination: +12:35:59
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 11.7

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1784
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: cF, cL, vlE, lbM
Sub-type: SBbc

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5020

17.5" (5/19/01): this face-on barred spiral appears as a fairly large, round 2' glow of fairly low surface brightness.  Contains a sharply defined, bright 20" core and a stellar nucleus.  Located 15' SE of mag 8.4 SAO 100454.