Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 01h 26m 12s
- Declination
- 33° 24’ 18”
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5117 +/- 30 km/s
- Distance
- 219 Mly
- Type
- S0
- Size
- 89,000 ly (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 0.5' x 0.3'
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 553 is a lenticular galaxy recorded in the New General Catalogue. It is located 219 million light-years towards the direction of the constellation Pisces on the sky. It is an S0 type galaxy. It was discovered by British astronomer William Herschel in 1784 using a 47.5 cm (18.7 in) reflector.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 553” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.