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NGC903
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 2:24:0.8
Declination: +27:21:25
Constellation: ARI
Visual Magnitude: 15.7
Historic Information
Discoverer: Stephan
Year of discovery: 1884
Discovery aperture: 31.0
Observational
Summary description: eF, eS, R
Sub-type: S0
Steve's Notes
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NGC 903
17.5" (1/20/90): extremely faint, very small, glimpsed for moments. Located 1.5' NW of NGC 904. First in a group of 6 galaxies. This is probably the faintest galaxy (LEDA gives 16.4B) discovered by Stephan with the 31.5-inch silver-on-glass reflector at Marseille.