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NGC3138
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 10:9:16.6
Declination: -11:57:26
Constellation: HYA
Visual Magnitude: 14.8
Historic Information
Discoverer: Leavenworth
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 26.3
Observational
Summary description: eF, vS, R, 1st of 2
Sub-type: Sbc
Steve's Notes
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NGC 3138
18" (4/14/12): at 225x appeared extremely faint, very small, slightly elongated, 15" diameter. Required averted vision to just momentarily pop occasionally but held for a few seconds a couple of times. I did not notice an elongated shape, so probably just viewed the core though the object was well past the meridian. Located 6.4' SW of mag 7.4 HD 88135, 13' NW of i 6.2 HD 88182 and 30' NW of mag 3.6 Lambda Hyd.