NGC 6015
| Galaxy NGC 6015 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Dragon |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 15 h 51 m 25.2 s |
| declination | + 62 ° 18 ′ 36 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SA (s) cd / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.0 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 11.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 5.4 ′ × 2.1 ′ |
| Position angle | 28 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.002759 ± 0.000003 |
| Radial velocity | (827 ± 1) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(45 ± 3) x 10 6 ly (13.7 ± 1.0) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | June 2, 1788 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6015 • UGC 10075 • PGC 56219 • CGCG 298-003, 319-028 • MCG + 10-23-03 • IRAS 15506 + 6227 • GC 4149 • H III 739 • | |
NGC 6015 is a 11.0 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sc in the constellation Dragon and about 45 million light-years from the Milky Way center.
It was discovered on June 2, 1788 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "vF, R, vgbM, easily resolvable, 3 'diameter".