NGC 6141
| Galaxy NGC 6141 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Hercules |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 16 h 23 m 06.4 s |
| declination | + 40 ° 51 ′ 30 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S0 |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.9 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.8 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.3 ′ × 0.3 ′ |
| Surface brightness | 12.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | Abell 2199 |
| Redshift | 0.029897 ± 0.000083 |
| Radial velocity | (8963 ± 25) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(407 ± 29) x 10 6 ly (124.9 ± 8.8) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Guillaume Bigourdan |
| Discovery date | May 27, 1886 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6141 • 2MASX J16230639 + 4051295 • SDSSJ162306.41 + 405129.9 | |
NGC 6141 is a 14.9 likes bright lenticular galaxy of Hubble type S0 in the constellation Hercules . It is estimated to be 407 million light years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 35,000 ly. In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 6145 and NGC 6146 .
The object was discovered by Guillaume Bigourdan on May 27, 1886 . Almost all modern catalogs, deviating from Bigourdan's position information, refer to the non-NGC object PGC 58077 (right ascension 16/25 / 05.8; declination + / 40/55/43) with the number NGC 6141 .