NGC 6472
| Galaxy NGC 6472 |
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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 03.1 s |
| declination | + 67 ° 37 ′ 49 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S? |
| Brightness (visual) | 15.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 16.0 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.3 ′ × 0.2 ′ |
| Position angle | 10 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | ? |
| Radial velocity | ? km / s |
| distance | ? pc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | September 25, 1886 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6472 • PGC 2703230 • MCG + 11-21-25 • 2MASX J17440309 + 6737489 • | |
NGC 6472 is a 15.2 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type S in the constellation Dragon at the northern sky .
NGC 6472 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 September 25, 1886 .