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NGC3463

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 10:55:13.3
Declination: -26:8:25
Constellation: HYA
Visual Magnitude: 12.8

Historic Information


Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1835
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational


Summary description: F, S, R, glbM
Sub-type: Sb

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 3463 18" (4/29/06): faint, small, elongated 2:1 WSW-ENE, 0.8'x0.4', weakly concentrated. Nearly collinear with a pair of mag 13/14 stars ~5' N (at 17" separation). An identical distance to the south is a mag 10.5 star with the galaxy at the midpoint of these stars. Located ~4.5¡ ESE of Hydra I cluster.