NGC/IC Project Restoration Effort
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NGC303
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 0:54:54.6
Declination: -16:39:18
Constellation: CET
Visual Magnitude: 14.3
Historic Information
Discoverer: Leavenworth
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 26.3
Observational
Summary description: eF, vS
Sub-type: S+S
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 303. For some time, I had this as a double galaxy with the brighter of
the pair to the north. Looking at this again in August 2015, I now believe
that this is a single object with distorted arms to the south, a bright
central bulge, and a single knot to the northwest. The positions in the table
now reflect this thinking.
Unfortunately, there seem to be no high-resolution images of the galaxy
available. Courtney Seligman has given us color images from the DSS, and also
suggests that this is a single galaxy. But this is outside the SDSS footprint
and there are no HST images available, either.
But this does indeed look like a single peculiar galaxy, at least based on the
DSS2 images.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 303
17.5" (10/21/95): extremely faint, very small, round, 20" diameter, low surface brightness with just a weak concentration. Can almost hold steadily with averted vision once identified on my finder chart.