NGC 6786
| Galaxy NGC 6786 |
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| The galaxies NGC 6786 (right) and UGC 11415 (left) captured by the Hubble Space Telescope | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Dragon |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 19 h 10 m 53.9 s |
| declination | + 73 ° 24 ′ 37 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB? / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.0 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.8 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.1 ′ × 0.9 ′ |
| Position angle | 45 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.8 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.025017 +/- 0.000043 |
| Radial velocity | 7500 +/- 13 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(344 ± 24) x 10 6 ly (105.5 ± 7.4) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis A. Swift |
| Discovery date | October 3, 1886 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6786 • UGC 11414 • PGC 62864 • CGCG 341.19 • IRAS 19119 + 7319 • 2MASX J19105392 + 7324362 • VV 414 • VII Zw 864 • KCPG 538A • Z 1911.9 + 7318 | |
NGC 6786 is a barred spiral galaxy of Hubble type SBBC in the constellation Dragon at the northern sky , an estimated 344 million light-years from the Milky Way 's center. Together with UGC 11415, it forms an interacting pair of galaxies.
The object was discovered on October 3, 1886 by the American astronomer Lewis A. Swift .
Web links
Commons : NGC 6786 - collection of images, videos, and audio files
- Hubble Space Telescope
- astronews.com: Picture of the day November 9, 2012
- SIMBAD Astronomical Database