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NGC3061

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 9:56:11.9
Declination: +75:51:59
Constellation: DRA
Visual Magnitude: 12.8

Historic Information


Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1801
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational


Summary description: vF, pL, r
Sub-type: SBc

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 3061 was found by WH on the night of 2 April 1801. The positions of all fifteen nebulae in the sweep (No. 1096) are affected by large, systematic errors. See NGC 3752 where I give the story of how it all came to be sorted out, first by Dreyer; then by myself, Steve Gottlieb, and finally Wolfgang Steinicke who has actually found the cause of the problem. The field confused many observers trying to follow up WH's discoveries, not least JH. See the "notngc" files under h 653 for more confusion in the area.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 3061 17.5" (1/28/89): faint, fairly large, slightly elongated, low surface brightness. There are two faint stars at the edges; a mag 14.5 star 1.8' NW of center and a faint 15 star 0.9' SSE of center.