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NGC5552

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 14:19:3.9
Declination: +7:1:56
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 14.1

Historic Information


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

Observational


Summary description: vF, S
Sub-type: S

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 5552 = NGC 5558, which see.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 5552 17.5" (5/10/91): very faint, very small, slightly elongated, small bright core. Forms a close pair with NGC 5554 2.8' ESE. A mag 14 star is 1.5' ESE on a line midway between NGC 5552 and NGC 5554. Located 30' S of a large group at the Bootes border.