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NGC3481

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 10:59:26.4
Declination: -7:32:39
Constellation: CRT
Visual Magnitude: 13.8

Historic Information

Discoverer: Stone
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 26.3

Observational

Summary description: eF, vS, rr, prob vF Cl, * 9 5' sf
Sub-type: Sab

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 3481 looks like one of the rare "ring" galaxies with a "nucleus" on the
ring itself, and a hole in the galaxy where the nucleus normally would be.
In this case, however, the nucleus appears to be elongated into a bar, and the
remainder of the ring could be interpreted as distorted spiral arms springing
from the ends of the bar.

I give positions for both the "nucleus" as well as for the entire galaxy.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 3481

18" (3/29/03): fairly faint, fairly small, round, 0.6' diameter, smooth surface brightness.  Located 5' NW of mag 8.8 SAO 137930 (wide yellow/blue unequal double).  Also nearby is a mag 10.7 star 2' W and a mag 11 star 3.5' N.