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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

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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.