NGC 6010
| Galaxy NGC 6010 |
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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 54 m 19.1 s |
| declination | + 00 ° 32 ′ 35 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S0-a: sp |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.5 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.4 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.0 ′ × 0.5 ′ |
| Position angle | 102 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.4 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.006745 ± 0.000017 |
| Radial velocity | (2022 ± 5) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(92 ± 7) x 10 6 ly (28.3 ± 2.0) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 3, 1786 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6010 • UGC 10081 • PGC 56337 • CGCG 022-048 • MCG + 00-40-13 • GC 4145 • H II 583 • h 1939 • | |
NGC 6010 is a 12.5 likes bright lenticular galaxy of Hubble type S0-a in the constellation snake and about 92 million light-years from the Milky Way center.
It was discovered on May 3, 1786 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "pB, S, E nearly in the parallel, bM".