NGC 6106

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Galaxy
NGC 6106
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation Hercules
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
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  
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".

Web links

  • NGC 6106. SIMBAD, accessed June 2, 2016 .
  • NGC 6106. DSO Browser, accessed June 2, 2016 .

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e SEDS : NGC 6106
  3. Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 6106. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on June 2, 2016 (English).
  4. Seligman