NGC 6764
| Galaxy NGC 6764 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | swan |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 19 h 08 m 16.370 s |
| declination | + 50 ° 55 ′ 59.58 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (s) bc / LINER / Sy2 |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.9 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.6 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.2 'x 1.2' |
| Position angle | 62 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.9 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.008059 ± 0.000013 |
| Radial velocity | 2416 ± 4 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(118 ± 8) · 10 6 ly (36.1 ± 2.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | 4th July 1885 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6764 • UGC 11407 • PGC 62806 • CGCG 256-007 • MCG + 08-35-003 • IRAS 19070 + 5051 • 2MASX J19081634 + 5055591 • 2MASS J19081638 + 5055593 • WISEA J190816.38 + 505559.416 • NVSS J1908 | |
NGC 6764 is a bar-spiral galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble-type SBbc in the constellation Swan in the northern sky . It is an estimated 118 million light-years from the Milky Way and about 70,000 light-years across .
In the same area of the sky is u. a. the galaxy NGC 6759 .
The object was discovered by Lewis Swift on July 4, 1885 .