NGC 6449
| Galaxy NGC 6449 |
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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 43 m 46.3 s |
| declination | + 56 ° 48 ′ 15 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Scd: |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.8 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.0 ′ × 0.8 ′ |
| Position angle | 135 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.4 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.017535 +/- 0.000147 |
| Radial velocity | 5257 +/- 44 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(244 ± 17) x 10 6 ly (74.8 ± 5.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | April 19, 1885 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6449 • UGC 10965 • PGC 60762 • CGCG 278-020 • MCG + 09-29-020 • IRAS 17429 + 5649 • 2MASX J17434635 + 5648148 • | |
NGC 6449 is a 13.8 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sc in the constellation Dragon at the northern sky , an estimated 244 million light-years from the Milky Way 's center.
The object was discovered by Lewis A. Swift on April 19, 1885 .
Web links
- NGC 6449. SIMBAD, accessed August 1, 2016 .
- NGC 6449. DSO Browser, accessed August 1, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 6449. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed August 1, 2016 (English).