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NGC3039

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 9:52:29.5
Declination: +2:9:13
Constellation: SEX
Visual Magnitude: 13.4

Historic Information

Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1865
Discovery aperture: 48.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, S, iR
Sub-type: SBb

Steve's Notes

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NGC 3039

17.5" (2/8/91): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 2:1 SW-NE, weak concentration, faint stellar nucleus.  A mag 11 star is 3.9' WSW and two mag 12.5 stars lie 3.0' W and 1.5' N.