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NGC3696

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 11:28:43.9
Declination: -11:16:59
Constellation: CRT
Visual Magnitude: 14.1

Historic Information


Discoverer: Leavenworth
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 26.3

Observational


Summary description: eF, eS, R, bMN
Sub-type: Sc

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 3696 is probably the galaxy that I've listed in the table. It is 10 seconds, and 10 arcmin off the nominal place listed by Leavenworth. Still, there is little besides the position to go on (Leavenworth's description could apply to just about any of the faint galaxies in the area), so I am not confident about the identification. There is no sketch. Another candidate galaxy that I considered, but dropped, was NGC 3704, but that does not have such neat offsets from the nominal position, and is brighter than Leavenworth's description (Mag = 15.6, Size = 0.1', R, bMN) would make it.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 3696 18" (5/12/07): very faint, very small, elongated 4:3 E-W, ~16"x12". There appeared to be a mag 15.5 star superimposed NE of center. Located 3.2' NW of a mag 10 star. 16" LX200 (4/14/07): extremely faint, very small, round. Only glimpsed with averted, though the observation was likely made through clouds that I noticed afterwards.