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NGC3476

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 10:58:7.6
Declination: +9:16:34
Constellation: LEO
Visual Magnitude: 13.8

Historic Information


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

Observational


Summary description: eF, vS, alm stell
Sub-type: E1

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 3476 is probably also NGC 3480 (which see), and NGC 3477. The two smaller numbers apply to nebulae found by Marth. His relative positions are good, but are offset from the true positions by 3 arcmin in declination. His descriptions are apt, so there is little doubt about the identifications of his two objects.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 3476 17.5" (3/22/96): very faint, very small, round, 20" diameter. A mag 14 star is 1.2' E of center. Forms a pair with NGC 3477 3.7' SSE. There is faint pair of mag 14.5/15 stars 1.5' SSE at 14" separation which appeared nebulous at first glance.