NGC 6040
| Galaxy NGC 6040 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Hercules |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 16 h 04 m 26.6 s |
| declination | + 17 ° 44 ′ 42 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SBc |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.9 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.6 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.3 ′ × 0.7 ′ |
| Position angle | 42 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | Hercules super cluster (Abell 2151?) |
| Redshift | 0.041200 |
| Radial velocity | 12351 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(556 ± 39) · 10 6 ly (170.5 ± 11.9) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Édouard Stephan |
| Discovery date | June 27, 1870 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6040 • UGC 10165 • PGC 56962 • CGCG 108-096 • MCG + 03-41-74 • IRAS 16021 + 1753 • Arp 122 • VV 212 • GC 5799 • | |
NGC 6040 is a 13.9 mag light barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBc in the constellation Hercules . It belongs to the Hercules supercluster and, together with the later discovered galaxy PGC 56942 (also called NGC 6040B ), forms the interacting galaxy pair Arp 122 . Halton Arp organized his catalog of unusual galaxies into groups according to purely morphological criteria. This galaxy belongs to the class of elliptical galaxies close to spiral galaxies and disturbing them (Arp catalog) .
The object was discovered on June 27, 1870 by Édouard Stephan .
Web links
- NGC 6040. SIMBAD, accessed May 29, 2016 .
- NGC 6040. DSO Browser, accessed May 29, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 6040. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on May 29, 2016 (English).
- ARP ATLAS OF PECULIAR GALAXIES
- Seligman Arp
literature
- Jeff Kanipe and Dennis Webb: The Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies - A Chronicle and Observer's Guide , Richmond 2006, ISBN 978-0-943396-76-7