Cosmic Atlas object record
NGC 6240
NGC6240, NGC 6240, IC 4625, IC4625
- Object type
- galaxy
- Constellation
- Oph
- Right ascension
- 253.24529167°
- Declination
- 2.40091667°
- Reference frame
- J2000 equatorial catalog coordinates
- Distance
- 339754860.1134548 ly
- Distance kind
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Uncertainty
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Apparent magnitude
- 13.27
- 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