NGC 6814
| Galaxy NGC 6814 |
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| Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Eagle |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 19 h 42 m 40.6 s |
| declination | -10 ° 19 ′ 26 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (rs) bc / HII / Sy1.5 |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 3 ′ × 2.8 ′ |
| Surface brightness | 13.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.005214 ± 0.000007 |
| Radial velocity | (1563 ± 2) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(75 ± 5) x 10 6 ly (23.0 ± 1.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | August 2, 1788 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6814 • PGC 63545 • MCG -02-50-001 • IRAS 19399-1026 • 2MASX J19424057-1019255 • GC 4507 • H III 744 • h 2045 • | |
NGC 6814 is a barred spiral galaxy with an active galaxy core of the Hubble type SBbc in the constellation of eagles in the northern sky . It is an estimated 75 million light years away from the Milky Way , has a disk diameter of about 65,000 ly, and is classified as a Seyfert galaxy .
The object was discovered on August 2, 1788 by the astronomer William Herschel with a 48 cm telescope.
Web links
- astronews.com: Picture of the day May 11, 2016
- SIMBAD Astronomical Database