NGC 513, also occasionally referred to as PGC 5174 or UGC 953, is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda.

[2] It is located approximately 262 million light-years from the Solar System[4] and was discovered on 13 September 1784 by astronomer William Herschel.

Herschel discovered this galaxy along with many other objects on a single observation, using Beta Andromedae as a reference star.

[6] John Louis Emil Dreyer, creator of the New General Catalogue, described the galaxy as "faint, small, stellar", still indicating the misidentification of NGC 513 as a star.

The redshift of 0.01956 allows an estimate of the galaxy's distance using Hubble's law, which puts the object at roughly 260 million light-years from the Sun.