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NGC3490

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 10:59:54.3
Declination: +9:21:44
Constellation: LEO
Visual Magnitude: 13.8

Historic Information

Discoverer: Common
Year of discovery: 1880
Discovery aperture: 36.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, S
Sub-type: E0

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 3490.  Common's RA is marked "+-", but it is close enough to CGCG 066-080 
(and the Dec is within an arcmin), to make the identification pretty certain.  
There are other equally bright galaxies around (including NGC 3480, which 
see), but none at the right declination.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 3490

18" (5/15/10): at 220x appeared as a faint, very small, round glow, just 15" diameter.  The surface brightness was fairly low and occasionally a very faint stellar nucleus was glimpsed.  Located 1.5' NW of a mag 12 star.