NGC 5365B is 9' ESE and NGC 5365A is 13.5' SW. NGC 5365B is a fairly faint, thin edge-on SW-NE, 0.8'x0.2'. NGC 5365A is also a fairly faint edge-on E-W, 1.5'x0.25'. A mag 12 star is at the east edge.

John Herschel discovered NGC 5365 = h3547 on 15 Mar 1836 and recorded "pB; vS; R; gbM; 15"." His mean position (two sweeps) is accurate. While observing NGC 5365 on 18 May 1881 with the 48" Melbourne telescope, Joseph Turner discovered NGC 5365A. The discovery was not published, so it didn't receive a NGC designation.

300/350mm - 14" (4/2/16 - Coonabarabran, 160x): fairly bright, fairly small, round, 40" diameter, high surface brightness. Contains a very bright nucleus. Apparently I missed the low surface brightness out halo. Several stars are nearby including a mag 10.7 star 3.7' NW, a mag 13 star 2' NW, a mag 12 star 2.9' SSW and a mag 12 star 2.4' SE. Several of these stars form a semicircle cradling the galaxy. Located 53' NNW of mag 3.9 Upsilon 1 Centauri.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb