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NGC 5663 (also MCG -3-37-3 and PGC 52049) is a magnitude +14.2 lenticular galaxy located 311 million light-years away in the constellation Libra.

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 31st May 1886. 

Right Ascension 14h 33m 56.2s, Declination -16° 34' 50"



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