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NGC3996
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 11:57:46.1
Declination: +14:17:51
Constellation: LEO
Visual Magnitude: 13.5
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1832
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: vF, pL, R, 2 st f
Sub-type: Sc
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 3996 is not NGC 4019, which see.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 3996
17.5" (5/11/02): fairly faint, fairly small, slightly elongated SW-NE, 0.7'x0.5', nearly even surface brightness. A line of stars oriented SSW-NNE precedes the galaxy and two mag 13.5-14 stars follow. Located 20' ENE of a mag 6.7 star and 2.1¡ ESE of Beta Leonis (Denebola).