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NGC3803

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 11:40:17.3
Declination: +17:48:6
Constellation: LEO
Visual Magnitude: 15.5

Historic Information

Discoverer: Mitchell
Year of discovery: 1856
Discovery aperture: 72.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, S, R
Sub-type: E0

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 3803.  See NGC 3807.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 3803

48" (4/2/11): this galaxy is the faintest of 5 NGC galaxies (and one MCG) in the NGC 3801 group.  At 375x it appeared fairly faint, small, round, 20" diameter, slightly brighter core.  Located 4.5' N of NGC 3801 and 2.2' N of NGC 3802.

17.5" (4/1/95): Not found.