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Your location: Santa Clara, United States
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Latitude:
37.3541
Longitude:
-121.955

How to find NGC3918

This guide uses bright stars first, then narrows the field for a telescope or binocular finder.

Follow the route from one recognizable star to the next until you reach NGC3918.

NGC3918 is below the horizon at the selected time. No suitable observing time was found during the next two nights.

View the current position and visibility tonight

Use the overview to locate the first bright reference, then follow the numbered route.

1

Gacrux

Center Gacrux in the finder or a low-power eyepiece before following the field stars.

2

field star · mag 5.6

From Gacrux, move about 5.3° toward the west until you reach field star · mag 5.6.

3

NGC3918

From field star · mag 5.6, move about 0.3° toward the south-west until you reach NGC3918. This is the target field.

How to find NGC3918

Finder Chart for NGC3918

Finder field 5.0°

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