NGC 6286
| Galaxy NGC 6286 |
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| The galaxies NGC 6285 (bottom) and NGC 6286 (top), which together form Arp 293 . Taken with the 81 cm reflecting telescope of the Mount Lemmon Observatory . | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Dragon |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 16 h 58 m 31.4 s |
| declination | + 58 ° 56 ′ 11 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sb: / pec / HII / LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.3 ′ × 1.2 ′ |
| Position angle | 33 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.018349 +/- 0.000053 |
| Radial velocity | 5501 +/- 16 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(254 ± 18) x 10 6 ly (77.9 ± 5.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | August 13, 1885 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6286 • UGC 10647 • PGC 59352 • CGCG 299-040 • MCG 10-24-84 • IRAS 16577 + 5900 • 2MASX J16583138 + 5856102 • Arp 293 • PRC C-51, LDCE 1228 NED002 | |
NGC 6286 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sb in the constellation Draco the northern sky , the 254 million light-years from an estimated Milky Way is removed. The object forms an interacting pair with NGC 6285 ( Arp 293 ). Halton Arp organized his catalog of unusual galaxies into groups according to purely morphological criteria. This galaxy pair belongs to the class galaxies with wind effects .
The object was discovered on August 13, 1885 by the astronomer Lewis Swift with a 40 cm telescope.
Web links
Commons : NGC 6286 - collection of images, videos, and audio files
literature
- Jeff Kanipe and Dennis Webb: The Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies - A Chronicle and Observer's Guide " , Richmond 2006, ISBN 978-0-943396-76-7