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NGC3484
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 11:3:6.0
Declination: +75:49:6
Constellation: DRA
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1832
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: Very doubtful object
Sub-type: NF
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 3484 = h 802 is lost. JH gives a position, suggests that it might be
H III 967 (but that is NGC 3465), and says, "A very doubtful object." That's
it.
Dreyer searched for this on the Greenwich plates that he asked to have taken
of the area covered by one of WH's very strange sweeps (see NGC 2938, NGC
3752, as well as h 653 and h 917 -- both in the "notngc" files -- for more).
I've searched for it on the POSS1 prints. There are no candidate galaxies
within 30-40 arcmin of JH's position. So, we just have to take JH's word for
it -- "A very doubtful object," indeed!