NGC 6044
| Galaxy NGC 6044 / IC 1172 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Hercules |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 16 h 04 m 59.7 s |
| declination | + 17 ° 52 ′ 13 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB0 ^ 0 ^ |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.6 ′ × 0.6 ′ |
| Surface brightness | 13.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | Hercules Cluster Abell 2151 |
| Redshift | 0.033106 ± 0.000067 |
| Radial velocity | (9925 ± 20) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(448 ± 31) · 10 6 ly (137.3 ± 9.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | June 27, 1886 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6044 • IC 1172 • PGC 57015 • CGCG 108-110 • MCG + 03-41-084 • 2MASX J16045968 + 1752128 • GALEX ASC J160459.65 + 175213.1 | |
NGC 6044 = IC 1172 is a 14.3 mag bright, lens-shaped galaxy of the Hubble type S0 in the constellation Hercules in the northern sky . It is an estimated 448 million light-years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 80,000 ly. The galaxy is considered a member of the Hercules galaxy cluster Abell 2151 . The galaxies NGC 6043 , NGC 6045 , NGC 6047 , NGC 6050 are still in the same area of the sky .
The object was discovered by Lewis A. Swift on June 27, 1886 . For reasons that have not yet been clarified, the observation of Guillaume Bigourdan on June 8, 1888 with an identical position and description under IC 1172 led to an entry in the index catalog .
Web links
Commons : NGC 6044 - collection of images, videos, and audio files
- NGC 6044. SIMBAD , accessed May 29, 2016 .
- NGC 6044. DSO Browser, accessed May 29, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf : NGC 6044. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on May 29, 2016 (English).
- Spectrum .de: Labeled surrounding image