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NGC5129

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 13:24:10.0
Declination: +13:58:36
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 12.1

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1787
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: pB, vS, R, gmbM, ** f
Sub-type: E2

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5129

17.5" (5/23/98): moderately bright, fairly small, slightly elongated N-S, 1.0'x0.8'.  Well-defined core with a stellar nucleus at 280x.  Precedes a coarse pair of mag 10.5 star oriented N-S (closer star is 1.8' E).  Brightest in a group with NGC 5132 7' NE, NGC 5136 18' SE, NGC 5115 17' W.