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NGC5052
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 13:15:35.0
Declination: +29:40:33
Constellation: COM
Visual Magnitude: 13.2
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1831
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: vF
Sub-type: S0-a
Steve's Notes
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NGC 5052
17.5" (6/1/02): faint, fairly small, slightly elongated 4:3 NNW-SSE, 0.9'x0.7', fairly bright stellar nucleus. A mag 13 star lies 1.6' SE of center. Located 7' SE of mag 9.3 SAO 63428. Probable outlying member of AGC 1656 (core is 4¡ SE) with a similar redshift as the cluster.