Key facts
- Constellation
- Triangulum
- Right ascension
- 02 31 09.7944
- Declination
- +29 ° 35 ′ 19.632 ″
- Redshift
- 0.015 758 ± 0.000 087
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4724 ± 26 km/ s
- Distance
- 216.2 ± 15.3 Mly (66.30 ± 4.68 Mpc )
- Type
- E
- Size
- ~96,500 ly (29.59 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.5′ × 1.5′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Triangulum
- Distance from Earth
- 63.61
- Image
- NGC 0953 DSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- GPM 37.790736+29.588810
- discoverer or inventor
- Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
- time of discovery or invention
- 1865-09-26
- apparent magnitude
- 11.3
- redshift
- 0.015821
- galaxy morphological type
- E
- Commons category
- NGC 953
- right ascension
- 37.7907042
- declination
- 29.5887167
- radial velocity
- 4706
- epoch
- J2000.0
- declination component of proper motion
- -9
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 16
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 953 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Triangulum. It has an apparent magnitude of 14.5. It was discovered by German astronomer Heinrich Louis d'Arrest on September 26, 1865.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 953” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.