NGC 6361
| Galaxy NGC 6361 |
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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 18 m 41.1 s |
| declination | + 60 ° 36 ′ 29 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAb: sp / NLAGN |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.0 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.8 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.2 ′ × 0.6 ′ |
| Position angle | 54 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.2 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.012715 ± 0.000037 |
| Radial velocity | (3812 ± 11) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(179 ± 12) · 10 6 ly (54.9 ± 3.8) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | August 18, 1886 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6361 • UGC 10815 • PGC 60045 • CGCG 300-009 • MCG + 10-25-04 • IRAS 17180 + 6039 • Arp 124 • | |
NGC 6361 is a 13.0 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sb in the constellation Dragon and about 180 million light years from the Milky Way center. It interacts with a neighboring, small elliptical galaxy PGC 60040 , both together are also listed as Arp 124 . Halton Arp organized his catalog of unusual galaxies into groups according to purely morphological criteria. This galaxy belongs to the class of elliptical galaxies close to spiral galaxies and disturbing them (Arp catalog) .
NGC 6361 was discovered by Lewis A. Swift on August 18, 1886 .
Web links
- NGC 6361. SIMBAD, accessed July 28, 2016 .
- NGC 6361. DSO Browser, accessed July 28, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 6361. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on July 28, 2016 .
- ARP ATLAS OF PECULIAR GALAXIES
- Seligman Arp
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