NGC 53
| Galaxy NGC 53 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Toucan |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 00 h 14 m 42.8 s |
| declination | -60 ° 19 ′ 43 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | (R ') SB (r) from |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.5 likes |
| Angular expansion | 2 ′ × 1.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 172 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.015237 ± 0.000087 |
| Radial velocity | 4568 ± 26 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(200 ± 14) x 10 6 ly (61.2 ± 4.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | John Herschel |
| Discovery date | September 15, 1836 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 53 • PGC 982 • ESO 111-20 • 2MASX J00144279-6019425 • SGC 001215-6036.4 • GC 26 • h 2314 • AM 0012-603 • FAIR 3 | |
NGC 53 is a barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type (R ') SB (r) ab in the constellation Toucan in the southern sky . It is about 200 million light-years from the Milky Way and is estimated to be 120,000 light-years across.
The object was discovered on September 15, 1836 by the British astronomer John Frederick William Herschel .