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NGC3478

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 10:59:27.4
Declination: +46:7:23
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude: 12.9

Historic Information


Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1788
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational


Summary description: eF, S, R
Sub-type: SBbc

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 3478. Just as Dreyer misidentified NGC 3473, so did Copeland misidentify this galaxy -- the big reflector at Birr Castle was not very good at absolute positions or pointing. See UGC 6076 in the "notngc" files for more on this particular case.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 3478 17.5" (4/6/91): faint, fairly small, elongated 2:1 NW-SE, 1.5'x0.75', large brighter middle but no defined nucleus. A pair of mag 11 stars are 3.9' S and 5.5' SSW with a separation of 2.0'.