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NGC3839

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 11:43:54.4
Declination: +10:47:4
Constellation: LEO
Visual Magnitude: 13.3

Historic Information

Discoverer: Stephan
Year of discovery: 1882
Discovery aperture: 31.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, S, R, lbM
Sub-type: Sd

Steve's Notes

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NGC 3839

17.5" (4/25/87): fairly faint, fairly small, weak concentration, elongated WSW-ENE.  Forms the north vertex of near equilateral triangle with mag 8.5 SAO 99760 6.0' SSE and mag 8.4 SAO 99756 7.1' SW.  Member of the NGC 3817-3869 group.