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NGC973
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 2:34:20.1
Declination: +32:30:20
Constellation: TRI
Visual Magnitude: 12.8
Historic Information
Discoverer: Swift L.
Year of discovery: 1885
Discovery aperture: 16.0
Observational
Summary description: eeF, S, mE, pB * nr sp
Sub-type: Sb
Steve's Notes
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NGC 973
18" (1/26/11): fairly faint, moderately large, very elongated 4:1 SW-NE, 1.0'x0.25', sharply concentrated with a bright elongated core and very faint thin extensions. A faint star is very close preceding the SW extension. Located 4.5' NE of mag 7.5 HD 15896. The major axis of the galaxy is collinear with this star.
IC 1815 lies 4.5' S and 2MASX J02342777+3233439 lies 3.8' NNE. IC 1815 appeared fairly faint to moderately bright, fairly small, round, 35" diameter, even moderate concentration to a small bright core and stellar nucleus. The 2MASX galaxy appeared extremely faint, very small, elongated ~3:2 SW-NE, 20"x12".
17.5" (11/30/91): fairly faint, moderately large, very elongated 3:1 SW-NE. Located 4.5' NE of mag 7.5 SAO 55664. Forms a pair with IC 1815 4.5' S.