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NGC 7610
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NGC 7610 (also NGC 7616, IRAS 23171+0954, MCG 2-59-25, UGC 12511, and PGC 071087) is a magnitude +13.44 face-on barred spiral galaxy located 163 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. 

The galaxy was discovered by British amateur astronomer Andrew Ainslie Common using a 91.44 cm (36 inch) reflector at his Ealing observatory, near London in August 1880.
The galaxy was rediscovered by Andrew Ainslie Common in the same month, and later given the designation NGC 7616.

The galaxy hosted supernova 2013fs

Right ascension 23h 19m 41.4s, Declination +10° 11' 06"

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