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NGC3668
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 11:25:30.3
Declination: +63:26:47
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude: 12.3
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1787
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: F, pS, iR, gbM, * 9 np
Sub-type: Sbc
Steve's Notes
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NGC 3668
17.5" (4/22/95): moderately bright, moderately large, elongated 3:2 NW-SE, 1.5'x1.0', mottled appearance. Well concentrated with an elongated core and a bright nucleus. A mag 15 star is superimposed at the northwest end 0.6' from center. Located 2.6' NE of a mag 10 star.
Forms a pair with CGCG 314-028 = Arak 293 9.7' E, at the edge of the 225x field. The Arakelian galaxy (catalogue of high surface brightness galaxies) appeared fairly faint, very small, round. Appears a compact fairly high surface brightness glow about 20" diameter.