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NGC 5803 (also PGC 53609) is a magnitude +14.8 elliptical galaxy located 350 million light-years away in the constellation of Libra. 

The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Francis Preserved Leavenworth using a 66.04 cm (26 inch) refracting telescope at the Leander McCormick Observatory at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, on the 10th June 1885.

Right Ascension 15h 00m 34.4s, Declination -13° 53' 38"



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