NGC 6014
| Galaxy NGC 6014 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Snake |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 15 h 55 m 57.4 s |
| declination | + 05 ° 55 ′ 55 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S0 (r)? |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.5 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.5 likes |
| Angular expansion | 1.70 × 1.6 |
| Position angle | 171 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.007942 ± 0.000017 |
| Radial velocity | (2381 ± 5) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(109 ± 8) · 10 6 ly (33.4 ± 2.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | John Herschel Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | April 24, 1830 August 19, 1897 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6014 • IC 4586 • UGC 10091 • PGC 56413 • CGCG 051-007 • MCG + 01-41-002 • IRAS 15535 + 0604 • 2MASX J15555738 + 0555546 • NVSS J155557 + 055555 | |
NGC 6014 = IC 4586 is a lenticular galaxy of the Hubble type S0 in the constellation Snake north of the celestial equator . It is estimated to be 109 million light years from the Milky Way and about 55,000 light years across . In the same area of the sky is u. a. the galaxy NGC 6017 .
The object was discovered on April 24, 1830 by John Herschel , and independently of that by Lewis Swift in 1897. As a result, the galaxy was also entered in the index catalog as IC 4586 .