NGC 6386
| Galaxy NGC 6386 |
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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 28 m 51.8 s |
| declination | + 52 ° 43 ′ 24 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sbc |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.0 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.0 ′ × 1.0 ′ |
| Surface brightness | 14.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.023560 +/- 0.000193 |
| Radial velocity | 7063 +/- 58 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(324 ± 23) x 10 6 ly (99.4 ± 7.0) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | June 8, 1883 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6386 • PGC 60367 • CGCG 277-045 / 278-002 • MCG + 09-29-004 • 2MASX J17285175 + 5243245 • | |
NGC 6386 is a 14.2 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sbc in the constellation Dragon at the northern sky . It is estimated to be 324 million light years from the Milky Way and has a disk diameter of around 95,000 ly.
The object was discovered by Lewis A. Swift on June 8, 1883 .
Web links
- NGC 6386. SIMBAD, accessed July 28, 2016 .
- NGC 6386. DSO Browser, accessed July 28, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 6386. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on July 28, 2016 .