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NGC5702

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 14:38:55.0
Declination: +20:30:24
Constellation: BOO
Visual Magnitude: 13.4

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1792
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: vF, vS
Sub-type: S0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 5702

17.5" (6/20/01): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 4:3 ~NW-SE, 1.0'x0.7'.  Several mag 10-11 stars are in the 220x field to the west and SW.  A pair of galaxies, NGC 5710 and NGC 5711, lie ~30' SSE.