NGC 527, also occasionally referred to as PGC 5128 or PGC 5141, is a lenticular galaxy located approximately 259 million light-years from the Solar System[4] in the constellation Sculptor.

[6] The object was later catalogued by John Louis Emil Dreyer in the New General Catalogue, where the galaxy was described as "faint, small, a little extended, brighter middle, the following (eastern) of 2" with the other one being NGC 526.

[5] The galaxy has an apparent visual magnitude of 13.2 and can be classified as type SB0-a using the Hubble Sequence.

[2] The object's distance of roughly 260 million light-years from the Solar System can be estimated using its redshift and Hubble's law.

[4] NGC 527 has a much dimmer magnitude 14 companion galaxy (PGC 5142).