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NGC5287

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 13:44:52.5
Declination: +29:46:15
Constellation: CVN
Visual Magnitude: 15.3

Historic Information

Discoverer: Stephan
Year of discovery: 1881
Discovery aperture: 31.0

Observational

Summary description: F, S, irr, r?
Sub-type: S0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5287

17.5" (6/8/02): extremely faint and small, 10" diameter.  The difficult galaxy is adjacent to a mag 15 star attached on the north side [11" from center], which confuses the observation further!  Located 2.3' ESE of a mag 12.5 star.  One of the brightest galaxies in AGC 1781.  The UGC 8692 chain lies 10' NW.