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NGC3088
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 10:1:8.3
Declination: +22:24:22
Constellation: LEO
Visual Magnitude: 13.8
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1784
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: vF, S
Sub-type: S0
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 3088. Neither of the Herschels commented on the faint, edgewise
companion, so I've left the NGC number on the brighter galaxy. The suffixes
come, like many others, from the RNGC.
The galaxy has a faint companion on its east side that was seen by both R.J.
Mitchell and C.E. Burton with the Birr Castle reflector. See the "notngc"
files for more on the sightings.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 3088
17.5" (4/9/94): fairly faint, very small, high surface brightness, possibly elongated ~E-W, either a stellar nucleus or a very faint star superimposed. A string of four collinear stars mag 11.5-13.3 is SW; the closest is a mag 12 star 4.8' WSW and the farther two forms a nice wide double (12.4/13.3 at 35"). There is an impression of faint haze off the SE end of galaxy which creates a sense of elongation. On the POSS, this is a double system Ð the "faint haze" off the SE end is actually an edge-on contact system MCG +04-24-010 = NGC 3088B.