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NGC3840

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 11:43:59.0
Declination: +20:4:37
Constellation: LEO
Visual Magnitude: 13.8

Historic Information

Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational

Summary description: F, S, lE
Sub-type: Sa

Steve's Notes

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NGC 3840

17.5" (2/20/88): very faint, very small, irregularly round, broad concentration.  Located 2.9' NNW of NGC 3844 in the core of galaxy cluster AGC 1367. 

13.1" (2/25/84): very faint, very small, round.  This is the farthest northern galaxy in the core of AGC 1367.  Appears similar to NGC 3844 and NGC 3845.