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NGC5050

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 13:15:41.6
Declination: +2:52:45
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 13.7

Historic Information

Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 48.0

Observational

Summary description: F, vS, stell
Sub-type: S0-a

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5050

17.5" (6/1/02): fairly faint, small, elongated 3:2 SW-NE, 0.6'x0.4'.  Contains a very small bright 15" core.  Collinear with two mag 13/14 stars less than 2' N.  Located 10' SSE of mag 7.3 SAO 119834.