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NGC1303

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 3:20:40.7
Declination: -7:23:39
Constellation: ERI
Visual Magnitude: 13.9

Historic Information

Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1865
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, sev st inv
Sub-type: S0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 1303

17.5" (1/12/02): faint, small, slightly elongated N-S, 30"x25".  The halo suddenly brightens to a sharp 5" nucleus.  A mag 15 star is just off the southeast side 20" from center.  Forms the northern vertex of an isosceles triangle with  mag 9.7 SAO 130433 6' SSE and mag 10.1 SAO 130427 6' WSW.