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NGC3769

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 11:37:44.1
Declination: +47:53:36
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude: 11.7

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1788
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: pB, S, pmE
Sub-type: SBb

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 3769.  One of the nearby galaxies is often called "NGC 3769A" following
its entry in Holmberg's 1937 list of double and multiple galaxies.  However, 
it was first seen by LdR in 1852 with his 72-inch reflector at Birr Castle.
See the entry for NGC 3769A in the "notngc" files for the full story.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 3769

17.5" (4/6/91): fairly bright, moderately large, very elongated 3:1 NNW-SSE, 2.5x0.8', weak concentration.  A mag 13.5 star is 2.2' NE of center.  A very close companion NGC 3769A = CGCG 242-066, which appeared very faint, very elongated 3:1 WNW-ESE, low surface brightness, is 56" SE of center.