NGC 6137
| Galaxy NGC 6137 |
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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 23 m 03.1 s |
| declination | + 37 ° 55 ′ 20 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | E4 |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.1 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.9 ′ × 1.2 ′ |
| Position angle | 175 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.031031 +/- 0.000047 |
| Radial velocity | 9303 +/- 14 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(422 ± 30) · 10 6 ly (129.5 ± 9.1) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 17, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6137, 6137A • UGC 10364 • PGC 57966 • CGCG 196-063, 196-054 • MCG + 06-36-39 • GC 4188 • H III 624 • h 1956 • LDCE 1184 NED014 | |
NGC 6137 , also NGC 6137a called, is a 13.1 likes bright elliptical galaxy from the Hubble type E4 in the constellation Corona Borealis and about 422 million light-years from the Milky Way center. Together with the non-NGC object PGC 57964 (also NGC 6137B ) it forms an optical double galaxy.
The object was discovered on March 17, 1787 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "vF, S, bM, discovered with 300 power".