NGC 6511
| Galaxy NGC 6510 / NGC 6511 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Dragon |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 17 h 54 m 39.30 s |
| declination | + 60 ° 49 ′ 04.5 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SBc |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.4 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.0 ′ × 0.6 ′ |
| Position angle | 30 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.014283 ± 0.000123 |
| Radial velocity | 4282 ± 37 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(200 ± 14) · 10 6 ly (61.4 ± 4.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | October 9, 1884 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6511, 6510 • UGC 11051 • PGC 61086 • CGCG 300-092 • MCG + 10-25-114 • IRAS 17540 + 6049 • KUG 1754 + 608 • 2MASX J17543929 + 6049043 • NVSS J175439 + 604859 | |
NGC 6510 = NGC 6511 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBc in the constellation Dragon in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 200 million light-years from the Milky Way and about 55,000 light-years across .
The object was discovered by Lewis A. Swift on October 9, 1884 . Swift's second observation on May 30, 1886 led to a second entry in the catalog under NGC 6510 due to the slightly different description and a misinterpretation by Dreyer .
Web links
- NGC 6510. SIMBAD , accessed August 18, 2016 .
- NGC 6511. DSO Browser, accessed August 18, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf : NGC 6510. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on August 18, 2016 .