NGC 6810
| Galaxy NGC 6810 |
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| Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | peacock |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 19 h 43 m 34.2 s |
| declination | -58 ° 39 ′ 20 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sab / Sy2 ? |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.6 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.4 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.2 ′ × 0.9 ′ |
| Position angle | 176 ° |
| Surface brightness | 11.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.006775 ± 0.000033 |
| Radial velocity | 2031 ± 10 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(88 ± 6) x 10 6 ly (26.9 ± 1.9) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | John Herschel |
| Discovery date | July 10, 1834 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6810 • PGC 63571 • ESO 142-035 • IRAS 19393-5846 • 2MASX J19433370-5839027 • SGC SGC 193921-5846.5 • GALEX ASC J194334.24-583919.4 • LDCE 1361 NED002 | |
NGC 6810 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sab in the constellation Peacock on southern sky . It is estimated to be 88 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 30,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky is the galaxy IC 4884 .
The object was discovered on July 10, 1834 by John Herschel with his 18.7-inch reflector telescope and later included in his New General Catalog by Johan Dreyer .