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NGC3989

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 11:57:26.6
Declination: +25:13:58
Constellation: LEO
Visual Magnitude: 14.9

Historic Information

Discoverer: Mitchell
Year of discovery: 1854
Discovery aperture: 72.0

Observational

Summary description: eF, vS, R
Sub-type: Sb

Steve's Notes

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NGC 3989

24" (3/22/14): very faint, small, round, 15" diameter.  Located 1.2' E of a mag 10.5 star and 2.6' NNE of NGC 3987.  NGC 3993 is 2.6' E.

17.5" (3/19/88): extremely faint, very small, round.  Located 1.2' E of a mag 10 star.  Member of the NGC 4007 group with NGC 3987 2.5' SSW and NGC 3993 2.7' ENE.