NGC 6285
| Galaxy NGC 6285 |
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| The galaxies NGC 6285 (bottom) and NGC 6286 (top), which together form Arp 293 . Taken with the 81 cm reflecting telescope of the Mount Lemmon Observatory . | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Dragon |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 16 h 58 m 24.0 s |
| declination | + 58 ° 57 ′ 21 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S0; LINER / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.6 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.2 ′ × 0.7 ′ |
| Position angle | 129 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.018983 ± 0.000160 |
| Radial velocity | (5691 ± 48) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(263 ± 19) · 10 6 ly (80.5 ± 5.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | 1886 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6285 • PGC 59344 • CGCG 299-037 • MCG 10-24-81 • Arp 293 • KAZ 111, LDCE 1228 NED001 | |
NGC 6285 is a lenticular galaxy of the Hubble type S0 in the constellation Dragon , listed in the New General Catalog . It is estimated to be 263 million light years from the Milky Way . The object forms an interacting pair with NGC 6286 ( Arp 293 ). Halton Arp organized his catalog of unusual galaxies into groups according to purely morphological criteria. This galaxy pair belongs to the class galaxies with wind effects .
The galaxy was discovered in 1886 by the astronomer Lewis Swift using a 40 cm telescope.
Web links
Commons : NGC 6285 - collection of images, videos, and audio files
literature
- Jeff Kanipe and Dennis Webb: The Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies - A Chronicle and Observer's Guide , Richmond 2006, ISBN 978-0-943396-76-7