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NGC 2890 (also MCG -2-24-24, PGC 26778) is a magnitude +14.5 elliptical galaxy located 234 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra.

The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Francis Preserved Leavenworth using a 66.04 cm (26 inch) Alvan Clark & Sons refracting telescope at the Leander McCormick Observatory at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, on the 11th January 1886.

Right Ascension 09h 26m 29.8s, Declination -14° 31' 44"



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