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NGC3178

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 10:16:9.4
Declination: -15:47:28
Constellation: HYA
Visual Magnitude: 12.7

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1836
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: pB, pL, gpmbM
Sub-type: Sc

Steve's Notes

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NGC 3178

17.5" (3/22/96): fairly faint, moderately large, elongated 4:3 SW-NE, 1.2'x0.9', even surface brightness.  A mag 12-13 star lies 2.9' ESE.  There are several mag 10-11 stars in the 20' field and mag 9.3 SAO 155864 8.5' SE.