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NGC3106

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 10:4:5.2
Declination: +31:11:9
Constellation: LMI
Visual Magnitude: 12.4

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: F, S, R, sbM
Sub-type: S0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 3106

17.5" (4/9/94): fairly faint, fairly small, round, 1.2' diameter, sharply concentrated with faint halo and abrupt bright nucleus.  A mag 13.7 star is 2.7' N of center.  Situated almost at the midpoint of a mag 11.5 star 5.3' WNW and a mag 12 star 4.9' ESE.