NGC 6004
| Galaxy NGC 6004 |
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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 50 m 22.7 s |
| declination | + 18 ° 56 ′ 21 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (rs) bc |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.6 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.8 ′ × 1.7 ′ |
| Position angle | 105 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.012762 ± 0.000023 |
| Radial velocity | (3826 ± 7) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(175 ± 12) · 10 6 ly (53.7 ± 3.8) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Édouard Stephan |
| Discovery date | June 14, 1879 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6004 • UGC 10056 • PGC 56166 • CGCG 107-046 • MCG + 03-40-51 • IRAS 15481 + 1905 • 2MASX J15502269 + 1856207 • | |
NGC 6004 is a 12.6 mag bright barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type "SBc" in the constellation Snake near the celestial equator . It is estimated to be 175 million light-years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 90,000 ly. a. the galaxies NGC 6003 and IC 1142 .
The object was discovered on June 14, 1879 by Édouard Stephan .
Web links
- NGC 6004. SIMBAD, accessed May 22, 2016 .
- NGC 6004. DSO Browser, accessed May 22, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 6004. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on May 22, 2016 (English).