NGC 6283
| Galaxy NGC 6283 |
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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 59 m 26.6 s |
| declination | + 49 ° 55 ′ 19 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S. |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.9 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.1 ′ × 1.1 ′ |
| Surface brightness | 13.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.003646 +/- 0.000120 |
| Radial velocity | 1093 +/- 36 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(57 ± 4) · 10 6 ly (17.5 ± 1.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 13, 1788 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6283 • UGC 10652 • PGC 59386 • CGCG 252-014 • MCG + 08-31-018 • IRAS 16581 + 4959 • GC 4267 • H III 728 • | |
NGC 6283 is a 12.9 mag bright spiral galaxy of the Hubble type S? in the constellation Hercules . It is estimated to be 57 million light years from the Milky Way .
It was discovered on April 13, 1788 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "vF, cS, iR".