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NGC3898

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 11:49:15.3
Declination: +56:5:5
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude: 10.7

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1789
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: B, pL, lE, svmbM
Sub-type: Sab

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 3898.  See NGC 3594.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 3898

17.5" (3/19/88): bright, moderately large, elongated 2:1 WNW-ESE, very bright core, stellar nucleus. Brightest in a group of five galaxies with NGC 3888 15' SW.