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NGC3516

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 11:6:47.5
Declination: +72:34:9
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude: 11.7

Historic Information


Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1785
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational


Summary description: pB, vS, iR, psmbM *
Sub-type: SB0

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 3516 17.5" (3/28/92): moderately bright but small, slightly elongated SW-NE, sharp small bright core dominates, fairly small halo. A mag 14 star is 1.2' SE. Two mag 10 stars lie 2.3' NE and 4.1' W. This is a Seyfert galaxy with an large, active black hole.