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NGC 3634
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NGC 3634 (also MCG -1-29-8, VV 724 and PGC 34714) is a magnitude +14.5 elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Crater.  
The galaxy is close to NGC 3635 (PGC 34717) which is 317 million light-years away.

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 24th January 1887. 

Right Ascension 11h 20m 30.3s, Declination -09° 00' 49"



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