NGC 6762
| Galaxy NGC 6762 / NGC 6763 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Dragon |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 19 h 05 m 37.1 s |
| declination | + 63 ° 56 ′ 03 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S0 / a |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.4 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.5 '× 0.4' |
| Position angle | 119 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.009750 ± 0.000157 |
| Radial velocity | (2923 ± 47) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(140 ± 10) · 10 6 ly (43.0 ± 3.1) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | August 30, 1883 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6762 • NGC 6763 • UGC 11405 • PGC 62757 • CGCG 323-009 • 2MASX J19053708 + 6356023 • | |
NGC 6762 = NGC 6763 is a lenticular galaxy of the Hubble type S0-a in the constellation Dragon in the northern sky . It is an estimated 140 million light years from the Milky Way .
The object was discovered by Lewis Swift on August 30, 1883 .