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NGC5170
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 13:29:48.8
Declination: -17:57:55
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 11.1
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1785
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: cF, L, mE 129°, pgbM
Sub-type: Sc
Steve's Notes
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NGC 5170
17.5" (5/19/01): fairly faint but large, very thin edge-on NW-SE. On first glance appeared 4'-5' in length at 220x but with averted vision this impressive ray extends to at least 6'x0.7'. Contains a moderately bright and slightly bulging oval core 1.2'x0.7' giving the galaxy a classic thin "lens" appearance. The extensions are significantly fainter and taper and dim towards the tips. This galaxy has a narrow dust lane (not seen) similar to NGC 4565. A mag 9.5 star lies 9' SW.