NGC 6390
| Galaxy NGC 6390 |
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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 28.1 s |
| declination | + 60 ° 05 ′ 39 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sbc |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.6 ′ × 0.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 8 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.010472 ± 0.000041 |
| Radial velocity | (3139 ± 12) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(149 ± 10) · 10 6 ly (45.7 ± 3.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | July 7, 1885 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6390 • UGC 10881 • PGC 60356 • CGCG 300-040 • MCG + 10-25-047 • IRAS F17278 + 6008 • 2MASX J17282804 + 6005398 • 2MASS J17282801 + 6005388 | |
NGC 6390 is a 13.7 mag bright spiral galaxy of the Hubble type "Sbc" in the constellation Dragon in the northern sky . It is an estimated 149 million light-years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 70,000 ly. In the same area of the sky there are u. a. the galaxies NGC 6381 , NGC 6393 , NGC 6394 , NGC 6399 .
The object was discovered by Lewis A. Swift on July 7, 1885 .
Web links
- NGC 6390. SIMBAD, accessed July 31, 2016 .
- NGC 6390. DSO Browser, accessed July 31, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 6390. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed July 31, 2016 (English).