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NGC 7752 (also UGC 12779, MCG 5-56-4, ARP 86 and PGC 72382) is a magnitude +15.0 barred lenticular galaxy and satellite galaxy of NGC 7753 located approximately 233 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus.
Together with the interacting companion NGC 7753, it is catalogued as Arp 86 in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies by Halton Arp.

The galaxy was discovered by Irish astronomer R. J. Mitchell, assistant to William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, using a 182.88 cm (72 inch) speculum reflector at Birr Castle on the 22nd November 1854.

Right ascension 23h 46m 58.5s, Declination +29° 27' 32"



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