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NGC5120
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 13:25:40.3
Declination: -63:27:29
Constellation: CEN
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1835
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: Cl, eRi, mC, st 12…16
Sub-type: *Grp
Steve's Notes
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NGC 5120
18" (7/7/05 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): picked up at 228x as a rich, compact swarm of faint stars to the south of two mag 9.5 stars. About two dozen mag 13-14.5 stars are resolved in a 2.5' circular region over haze. A single brighter mag 11 star is near the east end of this small group. Located just 2.5' SE of mag 9.5 HD 116492 and 5' SW of mag 9.5 HD 116628. NGC 5155, a very rich and large Milky Way field, is immediately northeast.
Listed as "no cl?" in RNGC although shows up quite nicely at the eyepiece. See identification notes.