NGC 6042
| Galaxy NGC 6042 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Hercules |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 16 h 04 m 39.6 s |
| declination | + 17 ° 42 ′ 03 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SA0- |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.9 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.9 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.8 ′ × 0.7 ′ |
| Position angle | 65 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | Hercules super cluster (Abell 2151?) |
| Redshift | 0.034874 ± 0.000053 |
| Radial velocity | (10455 ± 16) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(471 ± 33) · 10 6 ly (144.5 ± 10.1) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Édouard Stephan |
| Discovery date | June 27, 1870 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6042, 6039 • PGC 56972 • CGCG 108-104 • MCG + 03-41-79 • GC 5801 • | |
NGC 6042 is a 13.9 likes bright lenticular galaxy of Hubble type e-S0 in the constellation Hercules and about 471 million light-years from the Milky Way center.
It belongs to the Hercules super cluster and was discovered by Édouard Stephan on June 27, 1870 .
Due to an error in the position information and a slightly different description, the observation by Lewis A. Swift on June 27, 1886 under NGC 6039 led to a second entry in the catalog.
Web links
- NGC 6042. SIMBAD, accessed May 29, 2016 .
- NGC 6042. DSO Browser, accessed May 29, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 6042. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on May 29, 2016 (English).