Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 25 31.432
- Declination
- +01 ° 45 ′ 33.57 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5549 km/s
- Distance
- 200.86 ± 39.79 Mly (61.583 ± 12.199 Mpc )
- Absolute magnitude v
- − 22.64
- Type
- E3:
- Size
- 233,700 ly (71,660 pc )
- Apparent size v
- 3.8 ′ × 2.3 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 74.07
- Image
- NGC 0533 SDSS.jpg
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- redshift
- 0.018443
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-10-08
- catalog code
- [ZEH2003] RX J0125.4+0146 3
- galaxy morphological type
- E
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- apparent magnitude
- 8.444
- Commons category
- NGC 533
- right ascension
- 21.3809667
- declination
- 1.7593250
- radial velocity
- 5478
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 533 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on October 8, 1785, by William Herschel. It was described as "pretty bright, pretty large, round, gradually brighter middle" by John Louis Emil Dreyer, the compiler of the New General Catalogue.
NGC 533 (SDSS)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 533” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.