Harold Corwin

IC 5052 is a large, late-type spiral seen exactly edge-on. There is no nucleus seen on any of the sky survey images, though the near-infrared image suggests an eccentric structure like that seen in NGC 55. In this case, the "bulge" is at the northern end of the galaxy. NED adopted the position from O'Brien et al (A&A 515, A60, 2010) based on the symmetry of the neutral hydrogen disk and noted that a position from the 2MASS Extended Source catalogue applies to the eccentric "bulge". I've given all these positions in the table, but have finally adopted the ESO-B position as representative of the optical image of the galaxy.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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