NGC 6244
| Galaxy NGC 6244 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Dragon |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 16 h 48 m 03.9 s |
| declination | + 62 ° 12 ′ 02 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SBa |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.5 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.4 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.6 ′ × 0.3 ′ |
| Position angle | 140 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.014603 |
| Radial velocity | 4378 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(204 ± 14) · 10 6 ly (62.5 ± 4.4) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | June 28, 1886 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6244 • UGC 10568 • PGC 59009 • CGCG 299-032 • MCG + 10-24-59 • IRAS 16475 + 6217 • 2MASX J16480389 + 6212017 • | |
NGC 6244 is a 13.5 mag light barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBa in the constellation Dragon in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 204 million light years from the Milky Way and has a disk diameter of around 95,000 ly.
The object was discovered by Lewis A. Swift on June 28, 1886 .
Web links
- NGC 6244. SIMBAD, accessed July 11, 2016 .
- NGC 6244. DSO Browser, accessed July 11, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 6244. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on July 11, 2016 .