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NGC3927
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 11:31:41.9
Declination: +28:9:14
Constellation: LEO
Visual Magnitude: 13.2
Historic Information
Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 11.0
Observational
Summary description: pF, pS
Sub-type: E-S0
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 3927 is probably NGC 3713. D'A has only one observation of it, and his
comment reads, "Satis pallida; modicae magnitudinis. Observatio haud dubia,
[c]oelum vero non favebat. Defesso caeteroquin oculo et hebetato." (My
translation with the help of Google Translate: "Quite faint, medium size.
While there is no doubting the observation, the sky was not favorable. Tired
and dull eye, too." Someone who knows Latin can probably do better.) Given
that, it's perhaps not strange that there is nothing at all at his position.
While I checked at positions resulting from a few digit errors, Steve Gottlieb
found NGC 3713 at the correct declination just 20 minutes of time preceding
d'A's position. We're reasonably confident that this is the correct galaxy,
but I've still put colons on the number as a flag.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 3927
See observing notes for NGC 3713. =Not found, Carlson.