NGC 6608
| Galaxy NGC 6608 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Dragon |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 18 h 12 m 28.9 s |
| declination | + 61 ° 17 ′ 53 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sd |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.9 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.6 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.0 '× 0.1' |
| Position angle | 42 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.022415 |
| Radial velocity | 6928 ± 8 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(310 ± 22) x 10 6 ly (94.9 ± 6.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | 4th August 1883 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6608 • PGC 61556 • MCG + 10-26-024 • 2MASX J18122885 + 6117531 • GALEX ASC J181228.96 + 611753.1 • FGC 2194 | |
NGC 6608 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Scd in the constellation Draco the northern sky . It is estimated to be 310 million light-years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 90,000 ly. a. the galaxies NGC 6597 , NGC 6601 , NGC 6607 , NGC 6609 .
The object was discovered by Lewis Swift on August 4, 1883 .