NGC 6260
| Galaxy NGC 6260 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Dragon |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 16 h 51 m 50.6 s |
| declination | + 63 ° 42 ′ 52 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sbc |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.1 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.8 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.8 ′ × 0.8 ′ |
| Surface brightness | 13.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.021942 +/- 0.000074 |
| Radial velocity | 6578 +/- 22 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(302 ± 21) · 10 6 ly (92.7 ± 6.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | August 5, 1886 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6260 • PGC 59142 • CGCG 320-046 • MCG + 11-20-29 • IRAS 16514 + 6347 • 2MASX J16515061 + 6342523 • | |
NGC 6260 is a 14.1 mag bright spiral galaxy of the Hubble type Sbc in the constellation Dragon in the northern sky . It is an estimated 302 million light-years away from the Milky Way and has a disk diameter of about 70,000 ly.
The object was discovered by Lewis A. Swift on August 5, 1886 .
Web links
- NGC 6260. SIMBAD, accessed July 17, 2016 .
- NGC 6260. DSO Browser, accessed July 17, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 6260. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on July 17, 2016 .