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NGC3807
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 11:40:54.7
Declination: +17:49:7
Constellation: LEO
Visual Magnitude: 16.0
Historic Information
Discoverer: Mitchell
Year of discovery: 1856
Discovery aperture: 72.0
Observational
Summary description: vF, S, R (? vF *)
Sub-type: *
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 3807 is a star, identified on LdR's diagram (it is labeled "C"). Steve
Gottlieb has convinced me (April 2010) that Bob Erdmann and I got the wrong
star when we went over the field a few years ago. The one Steve favors is
correctly situated to be the object shown on LdR's diagram, while the somewhat
brighter star that Bob and I had picked out earlier is nearly a full minute of
time on further east. That would place it well off the diagram, so it is
almost certainly not the object that LdR and his observer saw.
Other nebulae also shown on the diagram are N3790, N3801-03, and N3806, the
first three observed by the Herschels, the last also seen by d'Arrest.