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NGC3405
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 10:49:44.3
Declination: +16:14:33
Constellation: LEO
Visual Magnitude: 13.3
Historic Information
Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 48.0
Observational
Summary description: F, eS, alm stell, close to S *
Sub-type: E-S0
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 3405. Though Marth says "close to a small star", the second object is
really another galaxy. Marth presumeably saw the brighter, larger galaxy on
the southwest as nebulous, so this is the object that bears the NGC number.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 3405
17.5" (4/22/95): fairly faint, fairly small. At first glance appeared elongated 3:2 SW-NE but on closer inspection resolves into a very close pair of small faint galaxies with a 20" separation between centers. The brighter component (NGC 3405) is at the southwest end and is very small and round. The fainter member (MCG +03-28-015) is just barely separated at the northeast side. NGC 3399 lies 4.0' WSW. Forms an perfect equilateral triangle with two mag 13 stars 1.7' SW and 1.7' SSE.