NGC 5053 is the New General Catalogue designation for a globular cluster in the northern constellation of Coma Berenices. It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on March 14, 1784 and cataloged as VI-7.

NGC 5053 位於 后髮座 的北部，是 星雲和星團新總表 （NGC天體表）中收錄的一個 球狀星團。 它是德裔英國天文學家 威廉·赫歇爾 在1873年4月14日發現的，並登錄為VI-7。

NGC 5053是一个相对质量较低的星团，低的核心浓度因素为1.32。 它有一条长度为1,700 秒差距 的潮汐碎片星流朝向西方运动。 这条星流可能是经由潮汐激波引起的过程产生的。

2024年4月30日 · M-53 and NGC-5053 - posted in Beginning Deep Sky Imaging: Before devoting attention to the comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, I revisited the globular clusters M-53 and NGC-5053 in the constellation Coma Berenices. This RGB image is a stack of ninety 2-minute sub-frames taken over a three-hour period.

NGC 5053 is a Globular Cluster located in the constellation of Coma Berenices in the northern hemisphere. NGC 5053 is called NGC 5053 in the New General Catalogue (NGC). This catalogue is a list of deep space objects compiled by John Louis Emil Dreyer in 1888 to update John Herschel's earlier work.

NGC 5053 is of a much lesser stellar density than its prominent neighbor, and particularly lacks a concentrated bright nucleus. At a distance of about 53,500 light-years from us, NGC 5053's apparent diameter of 10.5 arc minutes corresponds to a linear extension of about 160 light-years.

2022年3月11日 · Messier 53 (NGC 5024, right side of the image) is a bright globular cluster located in the constellation Coma Berenices and about 58,000 light years from us. This cluster has about 500,000 stars that show a very low average metallicity (ratio between “heavy” elements -heavier than Helium- and Hydrogen) meaning it is pretty old (about 12.7 ...

2019年2月9日 · NGC 5053 contains only a few thousand stars, so lacks the dense central condensation of stars seen in most globular clusters, which can contain hundreds of …

While waiting for my main deep sky object to rise, I decided to capture NGC 5053 in the meantime. It is a globular cluster located in Coma Berenices. I prefer harder and more challenging targets, but ...

NGC 5053 is a Globular Cluster in the Coma Berenices constellation. NGC 5053 is situated close to the celestial equator and, as such, it is at least partly visible from both hemispheres in certain times of the year.