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NGC3125
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 10:6:33.2
Declination: -29:56:8
Constellation: ANT
Visual Magnitude: 13.0
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1835
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: cF, S, R, vgbM
Sub-type: E4
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 3125 appears to be a close double galaxy, though may be single with at
least two -- possibly more -- bright knots. The nominal nucleus is coincident
with the western component, while the eastern appears to be more diffuse.
I've given positions for both of the objects -- whatever they are -- and list
the mean for "NGC 3125" itself.
After I wrote that, Courtney Seligman did a quick literature search for this
galaxy and has found three papers that suggest that the bright knots are
actually young star clusters with many supergiant stars, including Wolf-Rayet
stars (see Wofford et al ApJ 781, 122, 2014; Hadfield and Crowther MNRAS 368,
1822, 2006; and Chandar et al ApJ 604, 153, 2004). Thus, these clusters are
similar to well-known superassociations like NGC 2070 (30 Doradus) in the LMC
and NGC 604 in M 33.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 3125
17.5" (3/28/87): fairly faint, small, roundish, brighter core.