NGC 6470
| Galaxy NGC 6470 |
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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 44 m 14.9 s |
| declination | + 67 ° 37 ′ 10 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SBb |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.4 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.3 ′ × 0.2 ′ |
| Position angle | 173 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.004877 +/- 0.000070 |
| Radial velocity | 1462 +/- 21 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(74 ± 5) · 10 6 ly (22.8 ± 1.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | June 9, 1886 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6470 • UGC 10974 • PGC 60778 • CGCG 321-039 • MCG + 11-21-025 • IRAS F17444 + 6737 • 2MASX J17441483 + 6737100 • | |
NGC 6470 is a barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBb in the constellation Dragon in the northern sky , which is an estimated 74 million light years away from the Milky Way .
NGC 6470 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 object was discovered by Lewis A. Swift on June 9, 1886 .