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NGC3183

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 10:21:48.6
Declination: +74:10:38
Constellation: DRA
Visual Magnitude: 11.9

Historic Information

Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1865
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational

Summary description: F, pL, E, lbM
Sub-type: SBbc

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 3183 = NGC 3218.  NGC 3183, found by d'A, has an accurate position given 
in the NGC.  NGC 3218, found by WH on 2 April 1801, does not; all the galaxies
found that night have large, systematic position errors.  See NGC 3752 for
more.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 3183

17.5" (4/6/02): moderately bright, fairly large, elongated ~2:1 NNW-SSE, 2.0'x0.8', broad concentration but no well defined core.  Several stars are nearby including two mag 13.5 stars at the north edge and a couple more stars within 1'.  Very possibly one of these is a stellar companion 1.0' NNE of center (2MASXi J1021541+741135).  The faint stars at the edges were a bit startling as it initially looked similar to a partially resolved cluster.