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NGC5054 (Galaxy, in Virgo, Est. RaDec 13h17m, -16d38')
Observer: Dave Mitsky (e-mail: djm28@psu.edu)
Instrument: 17-inch refractor Location: Harrisburg, PA, USA
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: good Seeing: fair
Time: Sun Apr 29 06:11:00 2001 UT Obs. no.: 552
NGC 5054 is a SA(rs)bc pec I-II galaxy that was the second most difficult of the Herschel 400 objects for me to see to date. (The hardest being NGC 6118, the so-called Blinking Galaxy in Serpens Caput.) It was extremely faint and diffuse and appeared amorphous and fairly large. NGC 5054 was barely visible through the 17" at magnifications of 118, 144, 202, and 259x. The NSOG lists the magnitude at 10.9 and the size at 4.8'x2.8'. The surface brightness is a rather dismal 13.6 magnitude.
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