Cosmic Atlas object record
NGC 6
NGC0006, NGC 6, NGC6, NGC 20, NGC20
- Object type
- galaxy
- Constellation
- And
- Right ascension
- 2.38625°
- Declination
- 33.30866667°
- Reference frame
- J2000 equatorial catalog coordinates
- Distance
- 231890409.60175398 ly
- Distance kind
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Uncertainty
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Apparent magnitude
- 14.41
- Catalog source
- openngc_ngc_ic_catalog
- Catalog epoch
- J2000 catalog coordinates
- Position epoch
- J2000
- Selection caveat
- OpenNGC Pax is not treated as parallax for galaxies. Galactic classes never use Hubble-flow redshift or radial-velocity distance, and radial velocity alone is never converted to distance.
- Cosmology
- Not supplied by the source catalog