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NGC 3774 (also  MCG -1-30-16 and PGC 36058) is a magnitude +13.8 barred spiral galaxy located 282 million light-years away in the constellation Crater.

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 38m 30.3s, Declination -08° 58' 35"



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