NGC 6106
| Galaxy NGC 6106 |
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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 18 m 47.1 s |
| declination | + 07 ° 24 ′ 39 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sc |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.9 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.4 ′ × 1.3 ′ |
| Position angle | 140 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.004829 ± 0.000019 |
| Radial velocity | (1448 ± 6) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(68 ± 5) x 10 6 ly (20.9 ± 1.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 13, 1784 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6106 • UGC 10328 • PGC 57799 • CGCG 052-001 • MCG + 01-41-16 • IRAS 16163 + 0731 • GC 4178 • H II 151 • h 1952 • | |
NGC 6106 is a 12.2 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sc in the constellation Hercules and about 68 million light-years from the Milky Way center.
It was discovered on April 13, 1784 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "not vF, pL, iR, bM, r".