NGC 6053

NGC 6053 is an elliptical galaxy located about 450 million light-years away^[2] in the constellation Hercules.^[3] The galaxy was discovered by astronomer Lewis Swift on June 8, 1886^[4][5] and is member of the Hercules Cluster.^[6][7]

NGC 6053
SDSS image of NGC 6053.
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Hercules
Right ascension	16h 05m 39.6s[1]
Declination	18° 09′ 52″[1]
Redshift	0.035341[1]
Heliocentric radial velocity	10595 km/s[1]
Distance	137 Mpc (447 Mly)[1]
Group or cluster	Hercules Cluster
Apparent magnitude (V)	15.3[1]
Characteristics
Type	E[1]
Size	~95,000 ly (29 kpc)[1] (estimated)[1]
Apparent size (V)	0.59 x 0.56[1]
Other designations
NGC 6057, CGCG 108-130, DRCG 34-120, MCG 3-41-106, NPM1G +18.0472, PGC 57090[1]