NGC 7759 (also MCG -3-60-18 and PGC 72496) is a magnitude +13.0 barred spiral galaxy located 337 million light-years away in the constellation Aquarius.
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 28th November 1885.
The galaxy was rediscovered by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift using a 40.6 cm (16 inch) Alvan Clark and Sons refractor at the Warner Observatory, East Avenue, Rochester, New York, on the 21st October 1886.
