NGC 6009
| Galaxy NGC 6009 |
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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 53 m 24.1 s |
| declination | + 12 ° 03 ′ 31 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S? |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.5 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.5 ′ × 0.2 ′ |
| Position angle | 175 ° |
| Surface brightness | 11.9 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.035224 ± 0.000123 |
| Radial velocity | (10,560 ± 37) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(475 ± 33) x 10 6 ly (145.7 ± 10.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Albert Marth |
| Discovery date | June 2, 1864 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6009 • PGC 56312 • CGCG 078-096 • 2MASX J15532407 + 1203311 • GC 5791 • | |
NGC 6009 is a 14.5 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type S in the constellation snake and about 475 million light-years from the Milky Way center.
It was discovered by Albert Marth on June 2, 1864 .