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NGC5159

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 13:28:16.1
Declination: +2:59:1
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 14.2

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: eF, S, lE
Sub-type: Scd

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5159

18" (5/29/05): extremely faint, fairly small, elongated ~2:1 NNW-SSE.  Not noticed initially but then caught the slightly brighter core.  When drifting across the field very faint, low surface brightness extensions could be glimpsed increasing the size to nearly 1.0'x0.4'.  Located 47' NE of NGC 5148, another dim galaxy.