NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort
(This is a very very beta version)
NGC3006
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 9:49:17.2
Declination: +44:1:32
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude: 14.9
Historic Information
Discoverer: Stoney B.
Year of discovery: 1851
Discovery aperture: 72.0
Observational
Summary description: vF, S, stellar
Sub-type: S0
Corwin's Notes
=====
NGC 3006. See NGC 3000.
Steve's Notes
=====
NGC 3006
48" (5/14/12): moderately bright, very elongated 7:2 E-W, ~40"x12", broad concentration with a brighter core. Forms the south vertex of a quartet with NGC 2998, 3005 and 3008. MCG +07-20-052, a very low surface brightness interacting pair (misidentified as NGC 3002 in most catalogues), lies 2.2' NW.
17.5" (2/8/91): extremely faint, small, edge-on 4:1 E-W, very low surface brightness. Located 6.9' SE of NGC 2298 and 6.3' S of NGC 3005. MCG +07-20-052 (misidentified as NGC 3002) 3' NW was not seen.