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NGC5072
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 13:19:12.6
Declination: -12:32:23
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 13.1
Historic Information
Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1867
Discovery aperture: 11.0
Observational
Summary description: F, S, * 14 nf
Sub-type: E-S0
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 5072 = NGC 5070, which see.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 5072
17.5" (6/11/88): fairly faint, very small, round. A mag 13.5 star is in contact at the south-southwest end. Forms a pair with (R)NGC 5070 = MCG -02-34-023 3.6' NNE in the NGC 5077 group.
MCG -02-34-023 appeared extremely faint, very small, oval ~N-S. A mag 14.5 is just off the east edge 40" from the center. This galaxy is misidentified as NGC 5070 in the RNGC.