John Herschel discovered NGC 5052 = h1567 on 10 Apr 1831 and simply noted "vF". His position (single observation) is 1' north of UGC 8330 = PGC 46131.

400/500mm - 17.5" (6/1/02): faint, fairly small, slightly elongated 4:3 NNW-SSE, 0.9'x0.7', fairly bright stellar nucleus. A mag 13 star lies 1.6' SE of center. Located 7' SE of mag 9.3 SAO 63428. Probable outlying member of AGC 1656 (core is 4° SE) with a similar redshift as the cluster.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb