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NGC3856

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 11:44:14.0
Declination: +33:30:52
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude: 13.3

Historic Information


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

Observational


Summary description: North of the last one, others near
Sub-type: E0

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 3856 may be NGC 3847. See NGC 3855 for the story.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 3856 17.5" (4/14/01): extremely faint, small, round. Requires averted vision and cannot hold steadily. Located 4.5' ESE of IC 2953 = NGC 3855. The identification of NGC 3856 = CGCG 186-036 is very uncertain and this number may be a duplicate observation of NGC 3847.