Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Dorado (Dor)  ·  Contains:  IC 2115  ·  IC 2116  ·  NGC 1760  ·  NGC 1761  ·  NGC 1763  ·  NGC 1769  ·  NGC 1773  ·  NGC 1776
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NGC1763, A Southern Rose in Dorado, TWFowler
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NGC1763, A Southern Rose in Dorado

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NGC1763, A Southern Rose in Dorado, TWFowler
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NGC1763, A Southern Rose in Dorado

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NGC1763 is an emission nebula and embedded star cluster in the LMC. It is about 163,000 light-years away in the southern constellation Dorado. James Dunlop observed and cataloged this part of the sky from Parramatta, west of Sydney in 1826.

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NGC1763, A Southern Rose in Dorado, TWFowler