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NGC6903

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 20:23:44.9
Declination: -19:19:33
Constellation: CAP
Visual Magnitude: 11.9

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1830
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: cL, E, bM * 17, * 10 att n
Sub-type: E/SB0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 6903

17.5" (8/5/91): fairly faint, very small, round, very small bright core.  Very unusual appearance as a mag 10 star is attached at the NNE end.  The main body of the galaxy just extends up to the bright star but an extremely faint larger halo was suspected to encompass the bright star.