NGC 6372
| Galaxy NGC 6372 |
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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 | 17 h 27 m 31.8 s |
| declination | + 26 ° 28 ′ 31 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sc |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.9 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.7 ′ × 1.1 ′ |
| Position angle | 90 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.015844 +/- 0.000023 |
| Radial velocity | 4750 +/- 7 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(220 ± 15) · 10 6 ly (67.3 ± 4.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 19, 1784 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6372 • UGC 10861 • PGC 60330 • CGCG 140-028 • MCG + 04-41-013 • IRAS 17255 + 2630 • 2MASX J17273183 + 2628304 • GC 4303 • H III 137 • NVSS J172732 + 262834 | |
NGC 6372 is a 13.0 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type "SC" in the constellation Hercules at the northern sky . It is estimated to be 220 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 110,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 6371 and IC 1256 , among others .
The object was discovered on May 19, 1784 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "vF, not S, irregularly extended".