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NGC3789
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 11:38:9.0
Declination: -9:36:24
Constellation: CRT
Visual Magnitude: 13.4
Historic Information
Discoverer: Leavenworth
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 26.3
Observational
Summary description: eF, vS, E 0°, gbM
Sub-type: S0-a
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 3789 is much more likely to be MCG -01-30-015 than MCG -01-30-019. The
western galaxy is much brighter, and Leavenworth's description matches the bar
(which extends north-south) very well. The eastern galaxy is considerably
fainter, almost round, and has a fainter companion about 30 arcsec west. Had
Leavenworth seen this pair, he would more likely have described it as extended
east-west.
It's true that Leavenworth's position is closer to MCG -01-30-019 than to
-015. However, his position is about 1.5 minutes east of -015, an error that
many other of his observations share.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 3789
18" (3/19/04): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 2:1 N-S, 0.8'x0.4'. Contains a small brighter core and stellar nucleus with extremely faint extensions. Forms the western vertex of a near equilateral triangle with two mag 13.5 stars ~2.5' SSE and east. Located 25' NE of mag 4.7 Theta Crateris. Misidentified in the RNGC and MCG as MCG -01-30-019.