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NGC 3635 (also  MCG -1-29-9, VV 724, NPM1G -08.0342 and PGC 34717) is a magnitude +14.5 barred spiral galaxy located 317 million light-years away in the constellation Crater.
 The galaxy is close to NGC 3634 (PGC 34714).

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 24th January 1887. 

Right Ascension 11h 20m 31.3s, Declination -09° 00' 47"



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