John Herschel discovered NGC 5152 = h3508 on 5 May 1834 and recorded "The preceding of a double nebulae; the individuals are = ; R; vF; S; pslbM."

The pair was nicknamed the "Fly's Wing" in the 1982 "Catalogue of the Universe" by Murdin and Allen. Bill Keel also called it the "Flywing" in "The real astrophysical zoo - Colliding galaxies" in the April '93 issue of Mercury magazine. Still, a Google search doesn't find any hits for this nickname.

300/350mm - 13.1" (5/26/84): appears as stellar galaxy 0.9' W of NGC 5153 and 5' SE of NGC 5150.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb