NGC 6412
| Galaxy NGC 6412 |
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| Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Dragon |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 17 h 29 m 37.5 s |
| declination | + 75 ° 42 ′ 16 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SA (s) c |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.6 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.5 ′ × 2.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 120 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.4 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 410 |
| Redshift | 0.004380 ± 0.000003 |
| Radial velocity | (1313 ± 1) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(67 ± 5) · 10 6 ly (20.6 ± 1.4) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | December 12, 1797 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6412 • UGC 10897 • PGC 60393 • CGCG 355-034 / 356-004 • MCG + 13-12-026 • IRAS 17313 + 7544 • 2MASX J17293752 + 7542155 • Arp 38 • VV 444 • GC 4321 • H VI 41 • KAZ 146, LDCE 1246 NED005 | |
NGC 6412 = Arp 38 is a spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SA (s) c in the constellation Dragon , which is about 67 million light years away from the Milky Way .
Halton Arp organized his catalog of unusual galaxies into groups according to purely morphological criteria. This galaxy belongs to the class spiral galaxies with a companion of low surface brightness on one arm (Arp catalog) .
NGC 6412 was discovered on December 12, 1797 by the German-British astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel .
NGC 6412 group ( LGG 410 )
| Galaxy | Alternative name | Distance / million ly |
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| PGC 59888 | UGC 10792 | 64 |
| IC 4660 | PGC 60124 | 64 |
| NGC 6412 | PGC 60393 | 67 |
Web links
Commons : NGC 6412 - 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