NGC 6381
| Galaxy NGC 6381 |
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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 27 m 16.8 s |
| declination | + 60 ° 00 ′ 51 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SA (s) c? |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.9 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.6 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.3 ′ × 1.0 ′ |
| Position angle | 25 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.010891 +/- 0.000057 |
| Radial velocity | 3265 +/- 17 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(155 ± 11) · 10 6 ly (47.4 ± 3.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | July 7, 1885 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6381 • UGC 10871 • PGC 60321 • CGCG 300-034 • MCG + 10-25-038 • IRAS 17266 + 6003 • KUG 1726 + 600B • 2MASX J17271691 + 6000506 • | |
NGC 6381 is a 12.9 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sc in the constellation Dragon at the northern sky . It is estimated to be 155 million light years from the Milky Way and has a disk diameter of around 60,000 ly.
The object was discovered by Lewis A. Swift on July 7, 1885 .
Web links
- NGC 6381. SIMBAD, accessed July 28, 2016 .
- NGC 6381. DSO Browser, accessed July 28, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 6381. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on July 28, 2016 .