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NGC3351

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 10:43:57.8
Declination: +11:42:12
Constellation: LEO
Visual Magnitude: 9.7

Historic Information

Discoverer: Mechain
Year of discovery: 1781
Discovery aperture: 3.0

Observational

Summary description: B, L, R, pgmbMN
Sub-type: SBb

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 3351 = M 95 = H I 26.  See NGC 3345.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 3351

17.5" (2/28/87): very bright, very bright core. The outer halo is 4.5'x3.0' oriented SSW-NNE.  A bar is highly suspected extending WNW-ESE of the central core with inner ring structure suspected extending from this bar. 

13.1" (2/25/84): very bright, small bright nucleus. 

8": bright, fairly large, round.