NGC 6699
| Galaxy NGC 6699 |
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| Infrared image from the Hubble Space Telescope | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | peacock |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 18 h 52 m 02.0 s |
| declination | -57 ° 19 ′ 15 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (s) bc |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.9 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.5 ′ × 1.5 ′ |
| Surface brightness | 12.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.011314 ± 0.000034 |
| Radial velocity | (3392 ± 10) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(148 ± 10) · 10 6 ly (45.4 ± 3.2) Mpc |
| diameter | 70,000 ly |
| history | |
| discovery | John Herschel |
| Discovery date | July 12, 1834 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6699 • PGC 62512 • ESO 183-G021 • IRAS 18477-5722 • GC 4434 • h 3759 • LDCE 1328 NED005 | |
NGC 6699 is a barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SAB (rs) bc? in the constellation Peacock in the southern sky . It is around 148 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 70,000 light years .
The object was discovered on July 12, 1834 by John Herschel .