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NGC3278

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 10:31:35.5
Declination: -39:57:21
Constellation: ANT
Visual Magnitude: 12.2

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1835
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: F, S, R, D * nf
Sub-type: Sc

Steve's Notes

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NGC 3278

18" (2/19/09): brighter of a pair with NGC 3276 located 5' W.  At 175x it appeared fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 2:1 SW-NE, 0.6'x0.3', contains a slightly brighter core.  Located just SW of a wide, bright pair (h4326 = 9.8/10.6 at 39").