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NGC5232

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 13:36:8.2
Declination: -8:29:52
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 12.4

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: F, vS
Sub-type: S0-a

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5232

17.5" (5/15/99): fairly faint, fairly small, slightly elongated WSW-ENE, 1.0'x0.8'.  Fairly sharp concentration with a much brighter 30" core.  Forms a pair with MCG -01-35-005 3.5' ENE.  The companion appeared extremely faint, very small, round, no other details.  NGC 5241 lies 10' NNE. Located 5.3' NNE of mag 9 SAO 139434.  