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NGC3458

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 10:56:1.4
Declination: +57:7:2
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude: 12.3

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1793
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: vB, vS, R, stellar
Sub-type: SB0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 3458

17.5" (3/12/88): fairly bright, very small, round, very bright stellar nucleus, very faint small halo.  Forms a wide galaxy pair with NGC 3445 13.9' SW in the field.