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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

===== 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

===== 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.