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NGC3956

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 11:54:0.9
Declination: -20:34:0
Constellation: CRT
Visual Magnitude: 12.0

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1785
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: cF, pL, pmE 57°
Sub-type: SBc

Steve's Notes

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NGC 3956

17.5" (5/11/96): fairly faint, fairly large, very elongated 7:2 SW-NE.  Broad concentration with no well-defined core.  Halo gradually fades into background, so difficult to estimate size but roughly 3.2'x1.0' (slightly larger than similar NGC 3955).  Located 4.5' SE of mag 8.6 SAO 180275.