NGC 6012
| Galaxy NGC 6012 |
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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 13.9 s |
| declination | + 14 ° 36 ′ 05 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | (R) SB (r) from: / LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.9 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.1 ′ × 1.5 ′ |
| Position angle | 168 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.006184 ± 0.000013 |
| Radial velocity | (1854 ± 4) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(86 ± 6) · 10 6 ly (26.5 ± 1.9) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 19, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6012 • UGC 10083 • PGC 56334 • CGCG 107-054, 108-003 • MCG + 03-40-59 • IRAS 15519 + 1444 • KUG 1551 + 147 • 2MASX J15541394 + 1436044 • GC 4147 • H II 657 • | |
NGC 6012 is a barred spiral galaxy with an active galaxy core of the Hubble type SB (r) ab in the constellation Snake in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 86 million light-years from the Milky Way and has a disk diameter of around 50,000 ly.
The object was discovered on March 19, 1787 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflecting telescope, who described it as “F, iF, bM, 1.5 ′ diameter, between 2 bright stars”.