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NGC 7656 (also ESO 605-5, MCG -3-59-8 and PGC 71357) is a magnitude +13.5 lenticular galaxy located 348 million light-years away in the constellation of Aquarius. 

The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Francis Preserved Leavenworth using a 66.04 cm (26 inch) Alvan Clark & Sons f/14.9 refracting telescope at the Leander McCormick Observatory at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia on the 9th October 1885.

Right Ascension 23h 24m 31.5s, Declination -19° 03' 33"



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