PGC 56363
| Galaxy LEDA / PGC 56363 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Little Bear |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 15 h 54 m 47.5 s |
| declination | + 78 ° 59 ′ 06 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S0? |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.0 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.0 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.90 ′ × 0.2 ′ |
| Position angle | 171 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.013329 ± 0.000193 |
| Radial velocity | 3996 ± 58 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(187 ± 13) · 10 6 ly (57.2 ± 4.1) Mpc |
| history | |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 6068A • UGC 10126 S01 • PGC 56363 • CGCG 354-030 • 355-004 • MCG + 13-11-017 • 2MASX J15544753 + 7859066 • GALEX ASC J155447.74 + 785906.1 • KPG 476A • HOLM 727B | |
LEDA / PGC 56363 (also NGC 6068A ) is a lens-shaped galaxy of the Hubble type S0 in the constellation Little Bear in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 187 million light years from the Milky Way and about 50,000 light years in diameter. Together with NGC 6068 , it forms the isolated, gravitationally bound galaxy pair KPG 476 or Holm 727 .