Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
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Result of query: info cati WFB2003]$

Details on Acronym:   [WFB2003]
  
[WFB2003] (Whitlock+Forbes+Beasley, 2003)
Write:<<[WFB2003] NNN>>
N: 133
Object:Poss. Cluster of *  (SIMBAD class: GlobCluster_Candidate = Globular Cluster Candidate)
Stat:is completely incorporated in Simbad
Note:INT observations.
Photometry of NGC 3379 to search for globular cluster candidates.
in source:NGC 3379
Ref:=2003MNRAS.345..949W
byWHITLOCK S. , FORBES D.A., BEASLEY M.A.
 Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 345, 949-959 (2003)
  UBRI photometry of globular clusters in the Leo group galaxy NGC 3379.
oTable A1: <[WFB2003] NNN> (Nos 1-133).
=E=Catalogue in electronic form as J/MNRAS/345/949
Originof the Acronym: S = Created by Simbad, the CDS Database