NGC 6292
| Galaxy NGC 6292 |
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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 | 17 h 03 m 03.4 s |
| declination | + 61 ° 02 ′ 38 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sbc |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.5 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.6 ′ × 0.8 ′ |
| Position angle | 105 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.011378 ± 0.000020 |
| Radial velocity | 3411 ± 6 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(161 ± 11) · 10 6 ly (49.3 ± 3.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | July 8, 1885 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6292 • UGC 10684 • PGC 59498 • CGCG 299-047 • MCG + 10-24-093 • IRAS 17024 + 6106 • 2MASX J17030344 + 6102381 • NSA 167198 | |
NGC 6292 is a 13.5 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sbc in the constellation Draco the northern sky . It is estimated to be 161 million light-years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 75,000 ly
. a. the galaxies NGC 6295 and NGC 6297 .
The object was discovered by Lewis A. Swift on July 8, 1885 .
Web links
- NGC 6292. SIMBAD , accessed July 19, 2016 .
- NGC 6292. DSO Browser, accessed July 19, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 6292. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on July 19, 2016 .