NGC 6066
| Galaxy NGC 6066 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Snake |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 16 h 07 m 35.3 s |
| declination | + 13 ° 56 ′ 38 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S? |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.1 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.9 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.7 ′ × 0.6 ′ |
| Position angle | 135 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | WBL 609 |
| Redshift | 0.034387 ± 0.000153 |
| Radial velocity | (10,309 ± 46) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(464 ± 33) · 10 6 ly (142.4 ± 10.0) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | June 19, 1887 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6066 • PGC 57230 • CGCG 079-054 • 2MASX J16073534 + 1356377 • GALEX ASC J160735.41 + 135636.9 • USGC U745 NED01 • NSA 114789 | |
NGC 6066 is a 14.1 mag bright spiral galaxy of the Hubble type S? in the constellation Snake at the celestial equator . It is an estimated 464 million light years from the Milky Way and about 95,000 light years in diameter.
In the same area of the sky are u. a. the galaxies NGC 6065 , NGC 6074 , IC 1169 .
The object was discovered by Lewis A. Swift on June 19, 1887 .
Web links
- NGC 6066. SIMBAD , accessed May 29, 2016 .
- NGC 6066. DSO Browser, accessed May 29, 2016 .
- Courtney Seligman: New General Catalog Objects: NGC 6050-6099. Retrieved May 29, 2016 .
- Hartmut Frommert: Revised NGC Data for NGC 6066. SEDS, accessed on May 29, 2016 (English).
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 6066. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on May 29, 2016 (English).