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NGC3540

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 11:9:16.0
Declination: +36:1:17
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude: 13.3

Historic Information


Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1831
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational


Summary description: vF, R, psbM, * 7 p 7'
Sub-type: SB0

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 3540 = NGC 3548, which see.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 3540 17.5" (4/22/95): fairly faint, fairly small, round, small bright core. Located 8' E of mag 7.3 SAO 62421 and 17' S of mag 5.7 SAO 62427.