Cosmic Atlas object record
Milky Way
Milky Way
- Object type
- galaxy
- Constellation
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Right ascension
- 266.4166667°
- Declination
- -29.0077778°
- Reference frame
- J2000 equatorial coordinates transformed to heliocentric ecliptic Cartesian coordinates
- Distance
- 32615.638001674328 ly
- Distance kind
- literature_distance
- Uncertainty
- ["geom"]
- Apparent magnitude
- -4.6
- Catalog source
- curated_extragalactic_survey
- Catalog epoch
- J2000 catalog coordinates
- Position epoch
- J2000
- Selection caveat
- A literature compilation of nearby galaxies, not a uniform all-sky volume-limited survey.
- Cosmology
- Not supplied by the source catalog