NGC 6147
| Galaxy NGC 6147 |
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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 25 m 05.8 s |
| declination | + 40 ° 55 ′ 44 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sb |
| Brightness (visual) | 15.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 16.0 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.4 ′ × 0.3 ′ |
| Position angle | 30 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | Abell 2199 |
| Redshift | 0.028952 +/- 0.000139 |
| Radial velocity | 8680 +/- 42 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(395 ± 28) · 10 6 ly (121.1 ± 8.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | George Stoney |
| Discovery date | May 26, 1849 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6147 • PGC 58077 • MCG + 07-34-23 • GC 4196 • | |
NGC 6147 is a 15.2 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sb in the constellation Hercules and about 397 million light-years from the Milky Way center.
It was discovered on May 26, 1849 by George Stoney , an assistant to William Parsons .
Almost all modern catalogs refer, deviating from Stony's position information, with the number NGC 6147 to the non-NGC object PGC 58078 (right ascension 16/25 / 01.8; declination + / 40/55/16).