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NGC3771
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 11:39:5.9
Declination: -9:20:52
Constellation: CRT
Visual Magnitude: 12.6
Historic Information
Discoverer: Leavenworth
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 26.3
Observational
Summary description: vF, eS, R, * 10 p 15s
Sub-type: E0
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 3771. My previous note on this was not very helpful, so here is a better
one. This is another of the Leander McCormick objects found by Leavenworth
with very poor discovery positions. In this case, Leavenworth's position is
about 1m 40s west of a galaxy that matches his description (m = 14.5, diameter
= 0.1 arcmin, round), with a star of the appropriate magnitude (10) preceding
15 seconds of time. The galaxy is the brightest of a group.
As I've noted several times here, the LM positions are often fairly good in
declination, but well off in RA. This appears to be the case here, so I've
adopted the identification, though with some uncertainty.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 3771
17.5" (5/2/92): faint, fairly small, round, increases to a bright core, appears to have a very faint larger halo. Appears similar to NGC 3791 8' E. This identification is uncertain as the NGC position from Leavenworth is 1.7 tmin farther west.