The identification of NGC 3119 is uncertain and it may be a duplicate observation of brighter NGC 3121 instead.

Albert Marth discovered NGC 3119 = m 194 on 14 Dec 1863 and simply noted "vF". His position is 2.3' north of CGCG 093-045 and is actually closer to NGC 3121 = UGC 5450, which was discovered by William Lassell in 1848.

RNGC identifies CGCG 093-045 as NGC 3119 but MCG identifies UGC 5450 as NGC 3119. Corwin feels NGC 3119 is more likely a duplicate of NGC 3121 because of the better positional match. But CGCG 093-045 was visible in my scope so it should have visible to Marth and he may have already known of the earlier discovery of NGC 3121. So, the identification of NGC 3119 is uncertain.

400/500mm - 17.5" (1/23/88): extremely faint, very small, round. Located 4' SSW of NGC 3121. Forms the SE vertex of an equilateral triangle with NGC 3121 3.7' NNE and a mag 13.5 star 3.8' NW.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb