NGC 6108
| Galaxy NGC 6108 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Northern crown |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 16 h 17 m 25.6 s |
| declination | + 35 ° 08 ′ 09 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SBab / LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.4 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.2 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.1 ′ × 1.0 ′ |
| Position angle | 124 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.4 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | WBL 612-003 |
| Redshift | 0.030408 ± 0.000063 |
| Radial velocity | (9116 ± 19) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(414 ± 29) · 10 6 ly (126.8 ± 8.9) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Édouard Stephan |
| Discovery date | July 10, 1880 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6108 • PGC 57734 • CGCG 196-025 • MCG + 06-36-015 • KUG 1615 + 352A • 2MASX J16172560 + 3508084 • GALEX ASC J161725.76 + 350807.8 • LDCE 1184 NED004 | |
NGC 6108 is a 14.5 likes bright barred spiral galaxy with an active galactic nucleus from Hubble type SBab in the constellation Corona Borealis in the northern sky . It is an estimated 414 million light years from the Milky Way and about 135,000 light years in diameter. In the same area of the sky are u. a. the galaxies NGC 6107 , NGC 6109 , NGC 6110 , NGC 6112 .
The object was discovered on July 10, 1880 by Édouard Stephan .
Web links
- NGC 6108. SIMBAD , accessed June 2, 2016 .
- NGC 6108. DSO Browser, accessed June 2, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 6108. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed June 2, 2016 .