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NGC3549

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 11:10:56.8
Declination: +53:23:17
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude: 12.1

Historic Information


Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1789
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational


Summary description: cB, cL, cE 160°
Sub-type: Sc

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 3549 17.5" (4/22/95): fairly bright, moderately large, elongated 5:2 SW-NE, 2.6'x1.0', broad concentration. The ends fade into the background but do not taper giving a boxy impression. Three collinear mag 13.5 stars nearly parallel the galaxy off the SE side. The nearest is 1.7' ESE of center.