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NGC3261

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 10:29:1.4
Declination: -44:39:27
Constellation: VEL
Visual Magnitude: 11.2

Historic Information


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

Observational


Summary description: F, S, R, am st
Sub-type: SBbc

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 3261. See NGC 3366.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 3261 13.1" (2/18/04 - Costa Rica): fairly faint, moderately large, elongated 2:1 ~WSW-ENE, 1.4'x0.7', weak concentration. Bracketed between two mag 12 stars at the SW and NE ends (separation 2.6'). Located 4' SE of a mag 10 star in a rich Vela starfield. NGC 3261 is in a subgroup of the Hydra-Centaurus Supercluster (brightest member NGC 3256) and is 9¡ south of the rich Antlia Cluster (but has the same redshift).