NGC 6926
| Galaxy NGC 6926 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Eagle |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 20 h 33 m 06.1 s |
| declination | -02 ° 01 ′ 39 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (s) bc / Sy2 / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.5 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.2 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.0 '× 1.4' |
| Position angle | 0 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.019613 ± 0.000025 |
| Radial velocity | 5880 ± 7 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(269 ± 19) · 10 6 ly (82.6 ± 5.8) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | July 21, 1784 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6926 • UGC 11588 • PGC 64939 • CGCG 373-033 • MCG + 00-52-033 • IRAS 20305-0211 • 2MASX J20330610-0201390 • VV 621 • GC 4582 • H III 142 • h 2079 • HIPASS J2032-02 • LDCE 1403 NED014 • HOLM 781A | |
NGC 6926 is an active bar-spiral galaxy with extensive star formation regions of the Hubble type SBc / P in the constellation Eagle in the northern sky . It is an estimated 269 million light years away from the Milky Way and is approximately 155,000 light years in diameter . Together with NGC 6929 , it forms the galaxy pair Holm 781 .
The galaxy NGC 6922 is still located in the same area of the sky .
The object was discovered by Wilhelm Herschel on July 21, 1784 .