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NGC3862

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 11:45:5.0
Declination: +19:36:23
Constellation: LEO
Visual Magnitude: 12.7

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: vF, vS, R, * 17 n
Sub-type: E0

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 3862 is not IC 2955.  Bigourdan saw and measured both on the same nights,
so the two numbers cannot refer to the same object.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 3862

17.5" (3/12/88): fairly faint, small, round, bright core, stellar nucleus.  Forms a close trio with IC 2955 0.9' NNW and CGCG 97-118 2.9' W.  This galaxy is in the core of AGC 1367 and is the brightest in the field with NGC 3857, NGC 3859, NGC 3868.

13.1" (2/25/84): faint, small, round, bright core, IC 2955 0.9' NNW.