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NGC3870

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 11:45:56.6
Declination: +50:12:2
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude: 13.0

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1790
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: cF, cS, R, psbM
Sub-type: S0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 3870

18" (5/31/03): fairly faint, fairly small, slightly elongated SSW-NNE, 0.7'x0.5', weak concentration.  Situated near the intersection  of a string of stars to the SE and a couple of stars nearly collinear to the ENE.