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NGC3143

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 10:10:3.9
Declination: -12:34:55
Constellation: HYA
Visual Magnitude: 14.3

Historic Information

Discoverer: Common
Year of discovery: 1880
Discovery aperture: 36.0

Observational

Summary description: F, S
Sub-type: SBb

Steve's Notes

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NGC 3143

18" (4/10/04): very faint, very small, irregularly round, 25"x20", weak concentration.  Can just hold steadily.  Fors the vertex of an obtuse isosceles triangle with two mag 11.5 stars 5.7' N and a similar distance SE.  Also situated 9' S of NGC 3145 and nearly midway between mag 5.3 SAO 155780 14' S and mag 3.6 Lambda Lydrae 15' NNE!