NGC 6041

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Galaxy
NGC 6041
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Constellation Hercules
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 16 h 04 m 35.3 s
declination + 17 ° 43 ′ 09 ″
Appearance
Morphological type E-S0  
Brightness  (visual) 13.4 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 14.4 mag
Angular expansion 1.3 ′ × 1.1 ′
Position angle 36 °
Surface brightness 13.9 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Affiliation Hercules super
cluster (Abell 2151?)  
Redshift 0.034951 ± 0.000090  
Radial velocity (10478 ± 27) km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(473 ± 33)  ·  10 6  ly
(144.9 ± 10.1)  Mpc 
history
discovery Édouard Stephan
Discovery date June 27, 1870
Catalog names
NGC  6041 • UGC  10170 • PGC  56962 • CGCG  108-101 • MCG  + 03-41-78 • VV  213 • GC  5800 •

NGC 6041 is a 13.4  mag bright elliptical galaxy of the Hubble type E-S0 in the constellation Hercules and about 473 million light years from the Milky Way. It belongs to the Hercules supercluster and, together with the non-NGC object PGC 56960 (also called NGC 6041B ), forms a gravitationally bound double galaxy.

The galaxy was discovered by Édouard Stephan on June 27, 1870 .

Web links

  • NGC 6041. SIMBAD, accessed May 29, 2016 .
  • NGC 6041. DSO Browser, accessed May 29, 2016 .
  • Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 6041. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on May 29, 2016 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e SEDS : NGC 6041
  3. Seligman