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NGC473
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 1:19:54.9
Declination: +16:32:42
Constellation: PSC
Visual Magnitude: 12.5
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1784
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: eF, S
Sub-type: SB0-a
Steve's Notes
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NGC 473
17.5" (12/23/92): moderately bright, moderately large, elongated 2:1 NW-SE, 1.4'x0.7', broad concentration, bright core, stellar nucleus. Several bright stars are in the field including three mag 9 stars 5' SE, 10' SSW and 11' NW. NGC 463 lies 20' SW.
13" (10/20/84): moderately large, very diffuse, slightly elongated. Two very faint stars are off the east edge and a mag 9 star follows.