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NGC 335 (also ESO 541-6, IRAS 00568-1830, MCG -3-3-15 and PGC 3544) is a magnitude +14.0 spiral galaxy located 262 million light-years away in the constellation of Cetus. 

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 00h 59m 19.6s, Declination -18° 14' 03"



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