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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
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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
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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.