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NGC3232

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 10:24:24.4
Declination: +28:1:42
Constellation: LMI
Visual Magnitude: 14.3

Historic Information

Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1861
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational

Summary description: eF, * 11 p 150", ls, p of 2
Sub-type: SB0-a

Steve's Notes

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NGC 3232

17.5" (3/25/95): very faint, very small, round, 25" diameter, low even surface brightness.  Located 2.5' NE of a mag 10 star.  Forms a pair with brighter NGC 3235 7.7' E.

This is a superposed (merging?) pair of galaxies, though it was not seen as double.