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NGC163

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 0:35:59.7
Declination: -10:7:17
Constellation: CET
Visual Magnitude: 12.7

Historic Information


Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1865
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational


Summary description: vF, vS
Sub-type: E3

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 163. This is not H III 954; see NGC 165 for the short story. Also see NGC 153 = NGC 151 where this figures in the identification of NGC 151.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 163 17.5" (9/17/88): fairly faint, small, round, brighter core, stellar nucleus, diffuse halo. Forms a pair with NGC 165 6' E.