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NGC3950
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 11:53:41.1
Declination: +47:53:6
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude: 15.7
Historic Information
Discoverer: Parsons L.
Year of discovery: 1875
Discovery aperture: 72.0
Observational
Summary description: eF, 2'.6 n of h 1009
Sub-type: E?
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 3950 is probably the faint elliptical galaxy 1.6 arcmin north of NGC 3949.
However, LdR's estimated distance from the brighter galaxy on the first night
he picked up the companion, and his accordant micrometric measurement three
years later in 1875, are clearly 1 arcmin too great. This is all the more
puzzling since he gives a table of measurements of six stars surrounding N3949
-- all of those measurements are very good (he notes one as possibly nebulous;
it is not).
Still, he could have seen the fainter galaxy, and it seems likely that he made
a simple error in its distance from the brighter.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 3950
17.5" (4/7/89): seen as an extremely faint mag 15.5-16.0 stellar object located 1.8' N of NGC 3949. The redshift-based light travel time is nearly 1 billion years!