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NGC3
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 0:7:16.8
Declination: +8:18:5
Constellation: PSC
Visual Magnitude: 13.3
Historic Information
Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 48.0
Observational
Summary description: F, vS, R, alm stell
Sub-type: S0
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 3. See NGC 4 and NGC 7830.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 3
48" (10/24/11): at 610x appeared fairly bright, elongated 5:2 WNW-ESE, 30"x12", well concentrated with a very small bright core and stellar nucleus. A mag 11.5 star lies 1.3' SW. Brightest in a group with the other members much fainter. These include NGC 4 4.7' NE, NGC 7840 5.3' NNW and 2MASX J00074110+0814053 7.2' SE.
18" (10/21/06): faint, very small, elongated 3:2 WNW-ESE, 0.4'x0.25', very small slightly brighter core, faint stellar nucleus with direct vision. A mag 11.5 star lies 1.2' SW. Brightest in a group of faint galaxies.
17.5" (8/2/86): fairly faint, small, bright core, slightly elongated. A mag 11.5 star is 1.2' WSW. Brightest in the NGC 3 group with NGC 7838 6.3' NW, NGC 7837 6.9' NW, NGC 7835 10' NW, NGC 7834 11' WNW and NGC 4 5' NNE.