NGC 6140

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Galaxy
NGC 6140
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Constellation Dragon
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 16 h 20 m 58.1 s
declination + 65 ° 23 ′ 26 ″
Appearance
Morphological type SB (s) cd / pec  
Brightness  (visual) 11.2 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 11.9 likes
Angular expansion 6.3 ′ × 4.6 ′
Position angle 95 °
Surface brightness 14.7 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.003035 +/- 0.000013  
Radial velocity 910 +/- 4 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(49 ± 4)  ·  10 6  ly
(14.9 ± 1.1)  Mpc 
history
discovery Wilhelm Herschel
Discovery date June 3, 1788
Catalog names
NGC  6140 • UGC  10359 • PGC  57886 • CGCG  320-025 • MCG  + 11-20-12 • IRAS  16206 + 6530 • 2MASX  J16205816 + 6523259 • GC  4190 • H  III 740 •

NGC 6140 is a 11.2 mag bright barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SB (s) cd in the constellation of Dragon . It is estimated to be 49 million light years from the Milky Way and about 75,000 light years in diameter.

The object was discovered on June 3, 1788 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "cF, pL, iE".

Web links

  • NGC 6140. SIMBAD, accessed June 2, 2016 .
  • NGC 6140. DSO Browser, accessed June 2, 2016 .

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e f SEDS: NGC 6140
  3. Seligman
  4. Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 6140. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on June 2, 2016 (English).