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NGC3286

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 10:36:21.3
Declination: +58:37:13
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude: 13.6

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1793
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: vF, pS, R, pslbM
Sub-type: E3

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 3286 = NGC 3284, which see.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 3286

17.5" (4/9/94): fairly faint, small, round, moderate even concentration with a bright core and nonstellar nucleus.  Located 4.9' NW of a mag 10.5 star.  Forms a pair with NGC 3288 3.9' SSE.