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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

===== 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.