NGC 6136
| Galaxy NGC 6136 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Dragon |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 16 h 20 m 59.4 s |
| declination | + 55 ° 58 ′ 14 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sc |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.8 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.9 ′ × 0.3 ′ |
| Position angle | 95 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.2 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.031300 |
| Radial velocity | 9384 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(427 ± 30) x 10 6 ly (130.9 ± 9.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | July 6, 1886 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6136 • PGC 57892 • CGCG 276-010 • MCG + 09-27-19 • IRAS F16199 + 5604 • 2MASX J16205942 + 5558137 • | |
NGC 6136 is a 14.8 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sc in the constellation Draco the northern sky . It is estimated to be 427 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 115,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky is the galaxy NGC 6143 .
The object was discovered on July 6, 1886 by Lewis A. Swift .
Web links
- NGC 6136. SIMBAD, accessed June 8, 2016 .
- NGC 6136. DSO Browser, accessed June 8, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 6136. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed June 8, 2016 .