NGC 6226

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Galaxy
NGC 6226
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Constellation Dragon
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 16 h 43 m 23.2 s
declination + 61 ° 59 ′ 02 ″
Appearance
Morphological type S? pec  
Brightness  (visual) 13.1 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 14.0 mag
Angular expansion 0.8 ′ × 0.4 ′
Position angle 68 °
Surface brightness 11.7 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.018720 +/- 0.000043  
Radial velocity 5612 +/- 13 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(259 ± 18)  x  10 6  ly
(79.4 ± 5.6)  Mpc 
history
discovery Heinrich d'Arrest
Discovery date September 24, 1862
Catalog names
NGC  6226, 6202 • UGC  10532 • PGC  58847 • CGCG  299-022 • MCG  + 10-23-043 • IRAS  16428 + 6204 • GC  4242 • LDCE 1213 NED003

NGC 6226 is a 13.1 mag bright galaxy of the Hubble-type S? pec in the constellation of Dragon and about 259 million light years from the Milky Way.

It was discovered by Heinrich d'Arrest on September 24, 1862 . Due to an error in the position information, the observation by Lewis A. Swift on July 9, 1886, despite an identical description under NGC 6202, led to a second entry in the catalog.

Web links

  • NGC 6226. SIMBAD, accessed July 1, 2016 .
  • NGC 6226. DSO Browser, accessed July 1, 2016 .
  • Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 6226. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed July 1, 2016 .

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e SEDS: NGC 6202
  3. Seligman