NGC 6511
Galaxy NGC 6510 / NGC 6511 |
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AladinLite | |
Constellation | Dragon |
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 |
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 .