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NGC3409

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 10:50:20.2
Declination: -17:2:41
Constellation: HYA
Visual Magnitude: 14.1

Historic Information

Discoverer: Leavenworth
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 26.3

Observational

Summary description: eF, S, E 200°, 2 vF st inv
Sub-type: Sc

Steve's Notes

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NGC 3409

18" (3/11/07): extremely faint, fairly small, very elongated 3:1 ~N-S, 0.5'x0.15'.  A faint star is just west of the south end of the galaxy.  Located 12' NNE of NGC 3420 and 13' WSW of NGC 3431 which are both brighter galaxies.