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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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.