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NGC3472
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 10:57:28.1
Declination: -19:37:26
Constellation: CRV
Visual Magnitude: 14.3
Historic Information
Discoverer: Stone
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 26.3
Observational
Summary description: eF, S, R, gbM
Sub-type: S0
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 3472 may be ESO 572-G025, just an hour off of Stone's position -- but I
don't think so. There is a bright double star, with a fainter star closer to
the galaxy, just two arcmin to the southwest of the galaxy. Given his many
other notes of bright stars near his nebulae, Stone would almost certainly
have mentioned this in his description, and he does not. The entirety of his
description is "Mag = 15.5, Dia = 0.4, R, gbM." He has left no sketch for us,
either.
So the ESO galaxy is a possibility, but no more.