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NGC3251

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 10:29:16.5
Declination: +26:5:56
Constellation: LEO
Visual Magnitude: 13.4

Historic Information

Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1862
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, pL, 3 B st sp
Sub-type: SBc

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 3251 = IC 2579.  D'Arrest's RA is just 1 minute of time off, an error 
first suggested by Dreyer in a note to IC2, as well as in the description for
IC 2579.  The galaxy is positively identified by d'A's note about the three
stars to the southwest.  

There is no problem with Javelle's observation for the IC entry -- it is 
accurate.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 3251

17.5" (4/13/91): fairly faint, fairly small, very elongated 4:1 SW-NE, weak concentration.  Located 7' SW of mag 8.8 SAO 81378.  A group of three stars are SW including a mag 10 star 3.4' SW.