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NGC3387
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 10:48:16.9
Declination: +4:58:1
Constellation: SEX
Visual Magnitude: 15.5
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1830
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: eF, eS
Sub-type: *3
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 3387 is a triple star. See NGC 3386 for the story.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 3387
24" (3/22/14): at 375x a faint unequal double star at 7" separation was resolved. The brighter component on the SW side is mag 14.2 and the fainter component is mag ~15.5. Although sometimes the pair was cleanly resolved into two sharp points, when the seeing was softer the fainter component appeared as a vague, dim spot so I can see how John Herschel might have called this pair a "suspected nebula". Located 2.1' SE of NGC 3386 and 2.7' NNE of NGC 3385.