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NGC 1533 (also ESO 157-3, IRAS 04088-5614, and PGC 14582) is a magnitude +11.7 barred lenticular galaxy located 62 million light-years away in the constellation Dorado.

The galaxy was discovered by the British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Feldhausen, Claremont, Cape Town, on the 5th December 1834 

NGC 1533 is a barred lenticular galaxy with faint spiral structure in the constellation Dorado and the seventh brightest member of the Dorado Group and 1° off the group's center
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Right ascension 04h 09m 51.8s, Declination -56° 07' 06"



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