NGC 6495

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Galaxy
NGC 6495
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Constellation Hercules
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 17 h 54 m 50.758 s
declination + 18 ° 19 ′ 36.89 ″
Appearance
Morphological type E.  
Brightness  (visual) 12.2 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 13.2 mag
Angular expansion 2.0 ′ × 1.8 ′
Position angle 69 °
Surface brightness 13.5 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Affiliation WBL 649  
Redshift 0.010431 ± 0.000060  
Radial velocity 3127 ± 18 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(147 ± 10)  ·  10 6  ly
(45.0 ± 3.2)  Mpc 
history
discovery Albert Marth
Discovery date May 11, 1864
Catalog names
NGC  6495 • UGC  11034 • PGC  61091 • CGCG  112-070 • CGCG 113-004 • MCG  + 03-45-039 • 2MASX  J17545074 + 1819367 • GC  5886 • WISEA J175450.78 + 181936.6 • LDCE 1274 NED004

NGC 6495 is a 12.6 may bright elliptical galaxy from the Hubble type E1 in the constellation Hercules at the northern sky . It is estimated to be 147 million light years from the Milky Way and about 85,000 light years across . Presumably it forms a gravitationally bound galaxy pair together with NGC 6490 . In the same area of ​​the sky are u. a. the galaxies NGC 6500 and NGC 6501 .

The Type Ia supernova SN 1998bp was observed here.

The object was discovered by Albert Marth on May 11, 1864 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e f SEDS : NGC 6495
  3. Simbad
  4. Seligman