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NGC5187

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 13:29:48.2
Declination: +31:7:48
Constellation: CVN
Visual Magnitude: 13.4

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1787
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: vF, vS, R, glbM
Sub-type: Sb

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5187

17.5" (5/11/02): fairly faint, fairly small, slightly elongated SW-NE, 0.6'x0.5', weak concentration.  A mag 13 star lies 1.5' N.  An easy pair of mag 9.5/11.5 stars is 9' WSW. Located 19' E of mag 6.9 SAO 63556.  A trio of UGC galaxies (U8492, U8496 and U8502) lies 13' NE.