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NGC5162
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 13:29:25.9
Declination: +11:0:28
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 13.0
Historic Information
Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1887
Discovery aperture: 16.0
Observational
Summary description: vF, pL, lE, F * nr nf
Sub-type: Sc
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 5162 = NGC 5174. Swift's RA is 1 minute of time too small. Once that is
corrected, his detailed description, "vF, pL, eE [not lE as in the NGC]; an
eeF * at each focus of ellipse; B * in field sp; F * nr nf" is very close to
being an exact match to NGC 5174 (which see) and the surrounding star field.
The bright star (WH's comparison star for NGC 5174), the star northeast, and
the faint star involved to the south were also noted by JH and (the northeast
star) by Dreyer with LdR's 72-inch.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 5162
See observing notes for NGC 5174.