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NGC3170
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 10:16:14.4
Declination: +46:36:45
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1828
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: F, S, R
Sub-type: *2
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 3170 is a double star. JH's position is just an arcminute south-
southwest, and the double is very much like the several others that he mistook
as nebulae. Interestingly, the double is also Reiz 248. I do not have Reiz's
catalogue available, but would suspect that he picked up the object from the
NGC. Reiz, like Holmberg, worked from Bruce 24-inch plates, so mistook many
faint stars near the plate limit as galaxies.