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NGC3428

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 10:51:29.5
Declination: +9:16:45
Constellation: LEO
Visual Magnitude: 13.1

Historic Information

Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1865
Discovery aperture: 48.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, S, lE, glbM
Sub-type: SBb

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 3428 = NGC 3429.  Both positions -- from Marth in 1865, and Common in 1880
-- are pretty good.  I'm surprised that Dreyer did not catch the identity.
Perhaps if one of the observations had been by one of the Herschels he might
have.

In any event, the identity is secure.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 3428

18" (3/29/03): faint, fairly small, elongated 3:2 ~N-S, 0.6'x0.4', weak concentration.  Located 5' NE of mag 7.9 SAO 118535.