NGC 6080
| Galaxy NGC 6080 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Snake |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 16 h 12 m 58.6 s |
| declination | + 02 ° 10 ′ 38 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SA (s) from? |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.4 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.2 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.2 ′ × 1.0 ′ |
| Position angle | 48 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.4 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.025237 ± 0.000040 |
| Radial velocity | (7566 ± 12) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(341 ± 24) x 10 6 ly (104.4 ± 7.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | March 30, 1887 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6080 • UGC 10268 • PGC 57509 • CGCG 023-023 • MCG + 00-41-07 • IRAS 16104 + 0218 • | |
NGC 6080 is a 13.4 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sab in the constellation snake . It is estimated to be 341 million light years from the Milky Way and forms a pair of galaxies with PGC 93131 .
It was discovered by Lewis A. Swift on March 30, 1887 .
Web links
- NGC 6080. SIMBAD, accessed May 29, 2016 .
- NGC 6080. DSO Browser, accessed May 29, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 6080. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on May 29, 2016 .