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NGC2603

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 8:34:31.2
Declination: +52:50:25
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude: 15.5

Historic Information

Discoverer: Stoney J.
Year of discovery: 1850
Discovery aperture: 72.0

Observational

Summary description: eF, vS
Sub-type: C

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 2603.  Is this the faintest NGC galaxy?  The SDSS photometry (cModel 
magnitudes), transformed to BVR, gives B = 16.96, V = 16.19, and R = 15.59.
I'll look into other very faint ones, too.

See also NGC 2600 for general notes on the field.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 2603

24" (3/13/10): at 320x appeared extremely faint and small, round, 6" diameter.  Required averted vision to momentarily view, but reaquired several times to confirm.  Located 5.0' W of NGC 2602 and 10' WNW of NGC 2606.  Faintest of 5 galaxies in a group with brightest member NGC 2606.  At B = 16.9, this is one of the faintest, if not the faint NGC galaxy.

18" (3/13/10): not found at 275x.