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NGC5066

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 13:18:28.4
Declination: -10:14:2
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 13.3

Historic Information


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

Observational


Summary description: vF, vS
Sub-type: Sa

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 5066 = NGC 5069, which see.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 5066 17.5" (6/1/02): faint, small, irregularly round, low even surface brightness, 0.6'x0.5'. A thin triangle of mag 11 stars is SW (vertex star is 6' SW). Located 2¡ NW of Spica.