NGC 6780
| Galaxy NGC 6780 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | telescope |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 19 h 22 m 50.9 s |
| declination | -55 ° 46 ′ 33 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (rs) c / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.6 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.9 ′ × 1.6 ′ |
| Position angle | 168 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation |
NGC 6753 group LGG 426 |
| Redshift | 0.011662 ± 0.000032 |
| Radial velocity | 3496 ± 10 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(153 ± 11) · 10 6 ly (47.0 ± 3.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | John Herschel |
| Discovery date | June 9, 1836 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6780 • PGC 63.151 • ESO 184-062 • IRAS 19187-5552 • 2MASX J19225085-5546329 • SGC 191845-5552.2 • HIPASS J1922-55 • LDCE 1328 NED024 | |
NGC 6780 is a bar-spiral galaxy with extensive star formation regions of the Hubble type SBc in the constellation Telescope in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 153 million light years from the Milky Way and about 85,000 light years across.
The object was on June 9, 1836 by John Herschel discovered