The following images were taken here at Goodsell Observatory. We have decided that even though all of the Messier objects have NGC numbers, we will not include them here until we have many more NGC objects.
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This 5 minute exposure was taken with an 8″ LX200 using a blue filter.
NGC 2903 has coordinates 9h 32m.2 +21° 30′. It is about 20.5 million light years away and has a visual magnitude of 9.
08 February 1996