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NGC3898 (Galaxy, in Ursa Major, Est. RaDec 11hr 47m, 56.00)
Observer: Alan Shaffer (e-mail: milkyway@gte.net, web: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/3693/)
Instrument: 150-mm other Location: Mt. Pinos, California, US
Light pollution: none Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Sat Jun 7 10:00:00 1997 UT Obs. no.: 148
This was a strange one. I took a photo of Ursa Major (2 min. using 800 ASA Fuji Super G film) and when I got it developed and went to my Skt Atlas 2000.0 to pinpoint the stars, I picked up two strange blobs of light. After checking another sky atlas, I realized that I picked up two very faint galaxies on film. NGC 3898 and NGC 3888 were a complete surpirse. The sky gods were very kind to me that night.
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