NGC 6116
| Galaxy NGC 6116 |
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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 18 m 54.6 s |
| declination | + 35 ° 09 ′ 14 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAab / LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.2 × 0.9 ′ |
| Position angle | 17 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.9 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.029354 ± 0.000063 |
| Radial velocity | (8800 ± 19) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(400 ± 28) x 10 6 ly (122.5 ± 8.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Édouard Stephan |
| Discovery date | July 10, 1880 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6116 • UGC 10336 • PGC 57800 • CGCG 196-032 • MCG + 06-36-021 • KUG 1617 + 352 • 2MASX J16185458 + 3509138 • GALEX ASC J161854.53 + 350912.3 • LDCE 1184 NED007 | |
NGC 6116 is a 14.3 mag bright spiral galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble type Sb in the constellation Corona Borealis in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 400 million light years from the Milky Way and about 260,000 light years in diameter. In the same area of the sky are u. a. the galaxies NGC 6109 , NGC 6110 , NGC 6112 , NGC 6114 .
The object was discovered on July 10, 1880 by Édouard Stephan .
Web links
- NGC 6116. SIMBAD , accessed June 2, 2016 .
- NGC 6116. DSO Browser, accessed June 2, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 6116. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed June 2, 2016 .