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NGC3949

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 11:53:41.4
Declination: +47:51:36
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude: 11.1

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1788
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: cB, pL, pmE, vgbM
Sub-type: Sbc

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 3949.  See NGC 3950.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 3949

17.5" (4/7/89): bright, fairly large, oval NW-SE, broad concentration, substellar nucleus.  Forms a pair with NGC 3950 1.8' N (appears stellar).  A mag 15 star lies 3.0' NE of center.