NGC 6670
| Galaxy NGC 6670 |
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| Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Dragon |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 18 h 33 m 35.4 s |
| declination | + 59 ° 53 ′ 20 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S + S |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.1 / 0.6 0.5 / 0.2 |
| Position angle | 90 ° 105 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.028853 |
| Radial velocity | 8650 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(396 ± 28) · 10 6 ly (121.4 ± 8.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis A. Swift |
| Discovery date | July 31, 1886 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6670 • UGC 11284 • PGC 62033 • CGCG 301-031 • MCG + 10-26-044 • IRAS 18329 + 5950 • VII Zw 812 | |
NGC 6670 is an interacting pair of galaxies in the constellation Dragon in the northern sky , an estimated 396 million light years from the Milky Way . The two centers of the galaxies are about 50,000 light years apart.
The object was discovered on July 31, 1886 by the American astronomer Lewis A. Swift .
Web links
Commons : NGC 6670 - collection of images, videos, and audio files
- Hubble Space Telescope
- astronews.com: Picture of the day April 20, 2012