NGC 3686是一个位于狮子座的螺旋星系，与NGC 3681、NGC 3684和NGC 3691组成一个星系群[6]，1784年3月14日由威廉·赫歇爾发现[7]。
- ^1.01.1Skrutskie, Michael F.; Cutri, Roc M.; Stiening, Rae; Weinberg, Martin D.; Schneider, Stephen E.; Carpenter, John M.; Beichman, Charles A.; Capps, Richard W.; Chester, Thomas; Elias, Jonathan H.; Huchra, John P.; Liebert, James W.; Lonsdale, Carol J.; Monet, David G.; Price, Stephan; Seitzer, Patrick; Jarrett, Thomas H.; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Gizis, John E.; Howard, Elizabeth V.; Evans, Tracey E.; Fowler, John W.; Fullmer, Linda; Hurt, Robert L.; Light, Robert M.; Kopan, Eugene L.; Marsh, Kenneth A.; McCallon, Howard L.; Tam, Robert; Van Dyk, Schuyler D.; Wheelock, Sherry L.The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS). The Astronomical Journal. 1 February 2006,131: 1163–1183 [2022-06-26].ISSN 0004-6256.doi:10.1086/498708. （原始内容存档于2022-04-02）.
- ^2.02.12.2NGC 3686.SIMBAD.斯特拉斯堡天文資料中心. [2021-02-14].
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.doi:10.1086/510201. - ^4.04.1Search specification: NGC 3686. HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. [2021-02-14]. （原始内容存档于2022-06-26）.
- ^Results for object NGC 3686 (NGC 3686). NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. [2021-02-14].
- ^Blackman, C. P. (1980).Surface photometry, mass distributions and stability of the NGC 3686 quartet of galaxies. （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 191(1), 123–133.
- ^Seligman, Courtney.New General Catalogue objects: NGC 3650 – 3699. cseligman.com. [2021-02-14]. （原始内容存档于2019-02-03）.
