NGC 6463
| Galaxy NGC 6463 |
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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 34.3 s |
| declination | + 67 ° 36 ′ 13 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | E-S0 |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.6 ′ × 0.6 ′ |
| Surface brightness | 13.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.040838 +/- 0.000093 |
| Radial velocity | 12,243 +/- 28 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(556 ± 39) · 10 6 ly (170.4 ± 11.9) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | 1886 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6463 • PGC 60755 • CGCG 321-037, 322-007 • MCG + 11-21-22 • 2MASX J17433438 + 6736129 • | |
NGC 6463 is an elliptical galaxy of Hubble type e-S0 in the constellation Dragon at the northern sky , the 556 million light-years from an estimated Milky Way is removed.
NGC 6463 is part of an optical galaxy cluster made up of the six closely spaced galaxies NGC 6456 , NGC 6463 , NGC 6470 , NGC 6471 , NGC 6472 and NGC 6477 . A final clear identification based on Swift's observations is still pending.
The property was discovered by Lewis A. Swift in 1886 .