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NGC5140

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 13:26:21.7
Declination: -33:52:7
Constellation: CEN
Visual Magnitude: 11.8

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: vF, S, R, glbM
Sub-type: E/SB0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5140

18" (6/4/05): fairly faint, fairly small, slightly elongated, 0.8'x0.6', weak concentration to center.  A mag 13.5 star is close off the east edge.  Located 8.5' N of mag 7.0 HD 116788.  Outlying member of AGC 3565 and LGG 353 (part of the Centaurus-Hydra supercluster).