NGC 6411
| Galaxy NGC 6411 |
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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 35 m 32.8 s |
| declination | + 60 ° 48 ′ 48 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | E4 |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.8 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.8 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.0 ′ × 1.3 ′ |
| Position angle | 70 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.9 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.012695 +/- 0.000028 |
| Radial velocity | 3806 +/- 8 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(179 ± 12) · 10 6 ly (54.9 ± 3.8) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Heinrich d'Arrest |
| Discovery date | October 27, 1861 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6411 • UGC 10916 • PGC 60536 • CGCG 300-052 • MCG + 10-25-068 • 2MASX J17353281 + 6048481 • GC 4320 • | |
NGC 6411 is an 11.8 mag bright elliptical galaxy of the Hubble type E4 in the constellation Dragon in the northern sky . It is an estimated 179 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a disk diameter of about 100,000 ly.
The object was discovered by Heinrich d'Arrest on October 27, 1861 .
Web links
- NGC 6411. SIMBAD, accessed August 1, 2016 .
- NGC 6411. DSO Browser, accessed August 1, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 6411. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on August 1, 2016 .