NGC 6745
| Galaxy NGC 6745 |
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| Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | lyre |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 19 h 01 m 41.7 s |
| declination | + 40 ° 45 ′ 11 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S? |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.9 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.3 ′ × 0.5 ′ |
| Position angle | 24 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.015160 ± 0.000200 |
| Radial velocity | 4545 ± 60 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(213 ± 15) x 10 6 ly (65.2 ± 4.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Édouard Stephan |
| Discovery date | July 24, 1879 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6745 • UGC 11391 • PGC 62691 • CGCG 229-013 • IRAS 19000 + 4040 • Stephan 10 | |
NGC 6745 is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Lyra which is 213 million light years from the Milky Way . NGC 6745 has collided with a smaller galaxy (PGC 200361/200362) in the past, giving it the appearance of a bird's head.
NGC 6745 was discovered on July 24, 1879 by the French astronomer Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan .
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