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NGC5062

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 13:18:23.6
Declination: -35:27:32
Constellation: CEN
Visual Magnitude: 11.2

Historic Information


Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1834
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational


Summary description: eF, vS, E, r
Sub-type: S0

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 5062 18" (3/17/07): moderately bright, fairly small, elongated 3:1 NW-SE, 0.6'x0.2'. A mag 11 star lies 1.7' SW. Forms a pair with NGC 5063 6' N. Located 1.3 degrees NNW of mag 2.8 Iota Centauri.