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NGC3082

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 9:58:52.9
Declination: -30:21:27
Constellation: ANT
Visual Magnitude: 12.5

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1835
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: vF, S, R, D * att
Sub-type: E-S0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 3082

17.5" (3/16/96): fairly faint, small, elongated 2:1 SSW-NNE, 0.8'x0.4'.  A pleasing pair of mag 13 stars (oriented N-S) is just off the NE end.  A thin, faint, edge-on galaxy (ESO 435-019), lies 7' NNE (see notes).