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NGC3926
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 11:51:26.5
Declination: +22:1:42
Constellation: LEO
Visual Magnitude: 14.3
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1785
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: eF, eS, vlE, er, st nr
Sub-type: E-S0
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 3926. It's not quite clear which of these two galaxies is the one that
the Herschels saw. WH might actually have glimpsed both. He writes, "vF, vS,
lE, er or S patch of sts." JH, too, may have seen both: "eF, R, S, near a
star." The nearest star is over three arcminutes away (to the northwest), so
I think that JH's "star" may have been the second galaxy.
It is logical to suppose that the primary nebula seen by the Herschels is the
brighter of the pair. So, this is how I have relabeled the objects when I
looked at them again in February 2015. The A/B suffixes come from RNGC.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 3926
17.5" (5/4/02): this is a double system in a common envelope. The combined glow is elongated ~5:2 WNW-ESE, 0.8'x0.3'. In moments of better seeing, the system resolved into a contact pair with the brighter component (VV 218b) following and the companion appearing as a very small knot (VV 218a) at the west edge! The separation is just 24" between centers. NGC 3925 is 8' S.