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NGC3144
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 10:15:32.1
Declination: +74:13:14
Constellation: DRA
Visual Magnitude: 13.4
Historic Information
Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1865
Discovery aperture: 11.0
Observational
Summary description: vF, S, R, * 13 att f
Sub-type: SBa/P
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 3144 = NGC 3174. D'A found NGC 3144 in the late 1850s and measured its
place pretty accurately. NGC 3174 is from WH's 2 April 1801 sweep 1096 which
was affected by a large, systematic error of some sort. See NGC 3752 for more
on this sweep, and how we sorted it out.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 3144
17.5" (1/28/89): faint, very small, oval N-S. A mag 13 star is attached at the east end. Forms a pair with NGC 3155 11.6' NE.