NGC 6753 is a massive unbarred spiral galaxy, seen almost exactly face-on, in the southern constellation of Pavo. It was discovered by the English astronomer John Herschel on July 5, 1836. The galaxy is located at a distance of 142 million light years from the Milky Way, and is receding with a heliocentric radial velocity of 3,140 km/s. It does not display any indications of a recent interaction with another galaxy or cluster.

The morphological class of NGC 6753 is (R)SA(r)b, indicating it is a spiral without an inner bar feature (SA), displaying outer (R) and inner (r) ring structures, and moderately wound spiral arms. It is being viewed nearly face-on with a galactic plane inclination by 30° to the line of sight from the Earth. The galaxy is flocculent in appearance with a prominent central region. The virial mass of the galaxy is ~1×10 M_☉, while the stellar mass is 3.2×10 M_☉. It has a star formation rate of 15.5 M_☉·yr, which is confined to a radius of 15 kpc around the core. The most active region of star formation is the inner ring. It has a hot, X-ray luminous corona that extends out to a radius of 50 kpc.

Up to three supernovae have been discovered in this galaxy. The candidate type II-P supernova SN 2019mhm was discovered by the BOSS team on August 2, 2019. This transient was spotted close to maximum with a magnitude of 16.6, but showed no radio emission. Supernova SN 2000cj was discovered by Robert Evans on May 14, 2000. It was positioned against a spiral arm at an offset 35″ east and 19″ south of the galaxy nucleus. The spectrum showed this to be a type Ia supernova. On May 13, 2005, type Ic supernovae SN 2005cb was spotted by the Brazilian Supernovae Search team. It was offset 16″ west and 19″ north of the nucleus and reached a peak magnitude of 15.6.