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NGC3815

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 11:41:39.3
Declination: +24:48:1
Constellation: LEO
Visual Magnitude: 13.0

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1785
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: cF, S, 3rd of 3
Sub-type: Sab

Steve's Notes

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NGC 3815

17.5" (4/15/93): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 2:1 WSW-ENE, broad concentration.  Last in a small group (LGG 245) with NGC 3184 2.5' W, NGC 3812 6.7' WNW and NGC 3798 20' WSW.  Located 5.8' ESE of mag 8.4 SAO 81942.