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NGC5163

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 13:26:54.1
Declination: +52:45:15
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude: 13.6

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1789
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: cF, stellar
Sub-type: E4

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5163

18" (6/21/03): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 3:2 ~N-S, 0.8'x0.5'.  Sharply concentrated with a bright 10" core.  Located 10' W of mag 6.3 SAO 28763 at the edge of the field and 2 degrees SSE of Mizar!  NGC 5201 lies 29' NE.