NGC 6038

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Galaxy
NGC 6038
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation Northern crown
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
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  
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".

Web links

  • NGC 6038. SIMBAD, accessed May 22, 2016 .
  • NGC 6038. DSO Browser, accessed May 22, 2016 .

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d SEDS : NGC 6038
  3. Seligman
  4. Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 6038. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on May 22, 2016 (English).