NGC 6038
| Galaxy NGC 6038 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Northern crown |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 16 h 02 m 40.5 s |
| declination | + 37 ° 21 ′ 34 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sc |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.6 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.1 ′ × 1.1 ′ |
| Surface brightness | 13.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.031328 ± 0.000077 |
| Radial velocity | (9392 ± 23) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(426 ± 30) · 10 6 ly (130.6 ± 9.1) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 17, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6038 • UGC 10149 • PGC 56812 • CGCG 195-008 • MCG + 06-35-26 • IRAS 16008 + 3729 • GC 4156 • H III 622 • h 1944 • LDCE 1162 NED003 | |
NGC 6038 is a 13.6 likes bright spiral radio galaxy from the Hubble type Sc in the constellation Corona Borealis and about 426 million light-years from the Milky Way center.
It was discovered on March 17, 1787 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "vF, S, R, discovered in gaging".