Key facts
- Constellation
- Dorado
- Right ascension
- 04 16 10.5
- Declination
- −55 ° 46 ′ 49 ″
- Redshift
- 1080 ± 11 km/ s
- Distance
- 78.9 Mly (24.2 Mpc )
- Type
- SA(rl)0
- Apparent size v
- 4′.5 × 2′.8
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Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 10.20
- Image
- NGC 1553 Hubble.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 14765
- Commons category
- NGC 1553
- redshift
- 0.004026
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-12-05
- apparent magnitude
- 6.281
- right ascension
- 64.04362984939030
- declination
- -55.78002979520740
- radial velocity
- 1205
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NGC 1553 is a prototypical lenticular galaxy in the constellation Dorado. It is the second brightest member of the Dorado Group of galaxies. British astronomer John Herschel discovered NGC 1553 on December 5, 1834 using an 18.7 inch reflector.
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