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NGC5273

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 13:42:8.3
Declination: +35:39:14
Constellation: CVN
Visual Magnitude: 11.6

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1785
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: cB, pL, R, g, psmbM
Sub-type: S0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5273

17.5" (6/7/97): moderately bright, fairly large, elongated 4:3 N-S, ~2.5'x2.0'.  Fairly low surface brightness halo contains a well-defined core gradually increasing to a stellar nucleus.  Forms a pair with NGC 5276 3.3' SE.

8" (5/21/82): faint, small, small bright nucleus with a fainter outer halo.