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NGC3181

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 10:18:11.5
Declination: +41:24:48
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude: 14.8

Historic Information

Discoverer: Stoney B.
Year of discovery: 1851
Discovery aperture: 72.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, E, connected with h 688
Sub-type: GxyP

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 3181 is the brightest HII region, and the area of the spiral arm around 
it, in NGC 3184.  See NGC 3180.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 3181

48" (4/4/11): NGC 3181 is a bright, 15" knot in one of the spiral arms of NGC 3184.  It resides 1.2' SW of the nucleus in a long sweeping arm that wraps around around south side of the core and then heads north on the west side of the galaxy.  This is the brightest of a couple of knots resolved in the arms.