NGC 6297
| Galaxy NGC 6297 / NGC 6298 |
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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 36.5 s |
| declination | + 62 ° 01 ′ 32 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S0 |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.6 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.6 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.7 ′ × 0.5 ′ |
| Position angle | 90 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.016657 ± 0.000073 |
| Radial velocity | 4994 ± 22 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(232 ± 16) x 10 6 ly (71.0 ± 5.0) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | July 8, 1885 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6297, 6298 • UGC 10690 • PGC 59525 • CGCG 299-050 • 2MASX J17033657 + 6201323 • GALEX ASC J170336.66 + 620133.5 | |
NGC 6297 = NGC 6298 is a 13.6 mag bright, lens-shaped galaxy of the Hubble-type S0 in the constellation Dragon in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 232 million light-years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 50,000 ly
. a. the galaxies NGC 6292 and NGC 6299 .
The object was discovered by Lewis Swift on July 8, 1885 . Due to different descriptions, Swift's second observation on August 1, 1885 under NGC 6298 also led to a second entry in the catalog.
Web links
- NGC 6297. SIMBAD , accessed July 19, 2016 .
- NGC 6297. DSO Browser, accessed July 19, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 6297. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on July 19, 2016 .