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NGC3541

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 11:8:32.2
Declination: -10:29:31
Constellation: CRT
Visual Magnitude: 14.5

Historic Information

Discoverer: Tempel
Year of discovery: 1878
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational

Summary description: Nebulous *
Sub-type: Scd

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 3541.  Common's position from his short Copernicus list is very close to 
15 arcmin south of MCG -02-29-003, and is within 0.2 min in RA.  His
description is appropriate for the galaxy as it would be seen in a 36-inch
telescope, so the position is probably due to his misreading the declination
circle.  RNGC has the object as non-existent.

See NGC 3537 for more on this field.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 3541

17.5" (5/4/02): very faint, fairly small, round, 0.5' diameter.  Has a much lower surface brightenss than NGC 3537 14' N.  The NGC identification is very uncertain due to an imprecise position by Common and NGC 3541 may apply to MCG -02-29-004 28' SSE.  This galaxy is identified as NGC 3537 in MCG and RNGC.