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NGC3857

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 11:44:50.1
Declination: +19:31:59
Constellation: LEO
Visual Magnitude: 14.1

Historic Information

Discoverer: Stephan
Year of discovery: 1884
Discovery aperture: 31.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, vS, mbM
Sub-type: S0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 3857

17.5" (3/12/88): faint, small, slightly elongated SW-NE, bright core, stellar nucleus.  Located 3.3' NW of mag 8.1 SAO 99769 and 5.8' SW of NGC 3862 within the galaxy cluster AGC 1367. 

13.1" (2/25/84): very faint, very small, round.  A fairly bright star is 3.5' SE.  Appears similar to NGC 3859 5' S.