NGC 6070
| Galaxy NGC 6070 |
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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 09 m 58.7 s |
| declination | + 00 ° 42 ′ 34 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SA (s) cd |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.8 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 3.6 ′ × 1.8 ′ |
| Position angle | 62 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | NGC 6070 group LGG 404 |
| Redshift | 0.006685 ± 0.000019 |
| Radial velocity | (2004 ± 6) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(92 ± 7) x 10 6 ly (28.2 ± 2.0) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 3, 1786 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6070 • UGC 10230 • PGC 57345 • CGCG 023-017 • MCG + 00-41-004 • IRAS 16074 + 0050 • 2MASX J16095868 + 0042335 • GC 4164 • H III 553 • h 1947 • HIPASS J1609 + 00 • HOLM 729A | |
NGC 6070 is a 11.8 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sc in the constellation Serpens north of the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 92 million light-years away from the Milky Way and about 95,000 light-years across. Together with PGC 57350 and PGC 1175364 , it forms the galaxy trio Holm 729 .
The object was discovered on May 3, 1786 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as “cF, iF, resolvable, 5 ′ long, 3 ′ broad”.