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NGC3685
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 11:28:16.2
Declination: +4:19:39
Constellation: LEO
Visual Magnitude: 14.1
Historic Information
Discoverer: Todd
Year of discovery: 1877
Discovery aperture: 26.0
Observational
Summary description: eF, vS
Sub-type: E-S0
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 3685 is CGCG 039-192. Though Todd's position is off (as it is for nearly
all of the nebulae he found during his search for "the trans-Neptunian
planet") his sketchs of the field are very good, as are his measurements of
distances between stars and nebulae within each field. In this case, he found
the higher surface brightness component of a pair of CGCG galaxies; the other
is UGC 6466, a pretty low surface brightness barred spiral. This is Todd's
number (9). See NGC 3604 for more about Todd's search.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 3685
18" (4/30/11): faint, very small, round, 20" diameter. Forms the western vertex of a triangle with two mag 13 stars 2' NE and 2' E. Forms a close pair with UGC 6466 just 1' SW, but I wasn't convinced this low surface brightness spiral was glimpsed.