NGC 3000 is a double star located in the constellation Ursa Major.[1] It was first discovered and observed by Bindon Stoney (William Parsons' assistant) on January 25, 1851[2] and catalogued as a nebula-type object. It has been monitored by multiple different telescopes since its discovery.
Discovery
Stoney first described NGC 3000 as a "very faint, small, irregularly round, mottled but not resolved" galaxy. The position of NGC 3000 precesses to RA 09 49 02.6, Dec +44 08 46, but there is nothing there. However, all of Stoney's positions for objects in this region are about 2 arcmin east northeast of the actual object, and a correction for that apparently consistent error falls almost exactly on the pair of stars listed.[3]
