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NGC3703
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 11:29:9.0
Declination: -8:26:47
Constellation: CRT
Visual Magnitude: 14.7
Historic Information
Discoverer: Stone
Year of discovery: 1885
Discovery aperture: 26.3
Observational
Summary description: eF, vS, gbMN
Sub-type: S
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 3703 is one of Ormond Stone's discoveries. He made a sketch of the field,
but it only vaguely matches the galaxy and its surrounding stars, 10 arcmin
north and 25 seconds preceding the published nominal position (the position on
the sketch is another 30 seconds on east, which puts it just a minute of time
east of the galaxy in question). In particular, the orientation of the sketch
is unusual if the identification is correct -- south is normally at the top of
the sketches; this would have south at about 10 o'clock. Also, the brightest
star shown on the sketch is actually the faintest on the sky.
In the end, this is a possible identification, but no more.