U 369
12:20 to 13:00
-28° to -39°
Cen, Hya

FEATURED OBJECTS: IC 3253, NGC 4574, ESO442-SC004, .

IC 3253
MCG-06-27-021
RA 12:23:46
Dec -34° 35.6'
Galaxy

This galaxy was discovered by Delisle Stewart on photographic plates taken with the 24-inch Bruce refractor at the Arequipa station of Harvard College Observatory. It is described as: "extremely faint, very large, much elongated in PA 20 , a little brighter in the middle."

Burnham calls this a 12.3 mag spiral galaxy in Centaurus, 4' x 1.3', pretty faint, pretty large, pretty much elongated and very gradually a little brighter in the middle.

NGC 4574
MCG-06-28-007
RA 12:37:47
Dec -35° 29.5'
Galaxy

ESO442-SC004

RA 12:34:05
Dec -29° 24.6'
Open cluster