NGC 6378
| Galaxy NGC 6378 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Snake bearer |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 17 h 30 m 42.0 s |
| declination | + 06 ° 16 ′ 56 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sbc |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.0 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.8 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.3 ′ × 0.9 ′ |
| Position angle | 5 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.022315 ± 0.000030 |
| Radial velocity | (6690 ± 9) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(304 ± 21) · 10 6 ly (93.2 ± 6.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Édouard Stephan |
| Discovery date | July 13, 1876 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6378 • UGC 10884 • PGC 60418 • CGCG 055-001 • MCG + 01-44-009 • IRAS F17282 + 0619 • 2MASX J17304198 + 0616564 • GC 5863 • LDCE 1256 NED006 | |
NGC 6378 is a 14.3 mag bright spiral galaxy of the Hubble type Sbc in the constellation Serpent Bearer in the northern sky . It is an estimated 303 million light years from the Milky Way and has a disk diameter of about 115,000 ly.
The object was discovered on July 13, 1876 by Édouard Stephan .
Web links
- NGC 6378. SIMBAD, accessed July 28, 2016 .
- NGC 6378. DSO Browser, accessed July 28, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 6378. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on July 28, 2016 (English).