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NGC3049

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 9:54:49.5
Declination: +9:16:19
Constellation: LEO
Visual Magnitude: 12.1

Historic Information

Discoverer: Stephan
Year of discovery: 1882
Discovery aperture: 31.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, vS, F * v nr
Sub-type: SBab

Steve's Notes

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NGC 3049

17.5" (4/15/93): fairly faint, moderately large, elongated 3:2 SSW-NNE, weak concentration.  A mag 11 star is 3.4' NE of center and a mag 14 star lies 1.9' SW of center.