William Herschel discovered NGC 5702 = H III-894 on 20 Apr 1792 (sweep 1021) and recorded "vF, vS." CH's reduction is 10 sec of RA west of UGC 9434.

400/500mm - 17.5" (6/20/01): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 4:3 ~NW-SE, 1.0'x0.7'. Several mag 10-11 stars are in the 220x field to the west and SW. A pair of galaxies, NGC 5710 and NGC 5711, lie ~30' SSE.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb