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NGC3783

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 11:39:1.6
Declination: -37:44:18
Constellation: CEN
Visual Magnitude: 11.9

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1835
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: cB, R, sbMN *, * 9 sf
Sub-type: SBa

Steve's Notes

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NGC 3783

18" (4/25/09): fairly faint, fairly small, slightly elongated NNW-SSE, 0.8'x0.6', bright quasi-stellar nucleus.  Located just NW of a mag 9.2 that detracts from viewing.  This well-studied face-on galaxy contains a very bright, highly variable, Seyfert 1 nucleus (one of the closest) and my observation describes the core of the galaxy.  NGC 3742/3749 lies ~40' SW.