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NGC3953

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 11:53:48.4
Declination: +52:19:30
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude: 10.1

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: cB, L, E 0° ±, vsbMLrN
Sub-type: SBbc

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 3953 has a faint companion seen once by Bindon Stoney in 1851 with LdR's
big telescope.  See the story under "NGC 3953 companion" in the "notngc" 
files.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 3953

17.5" (3/19/88): very bright, very large, elongated ~N-S, 5'x2', very bright core, stellar nucleus.  A mag 13 star is at the west edge 0.9' from the center and a brighter mag 11 star is off the NE side 2.7' from center.  Visible in 16x80 finder.