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NGC 6242

NGC6242, NGC 6242

NGC 6242
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Object type
star_cluster
Constellation
Sco
Right ascension
253.88933333°
Declination
-39.46094444°
Reference frame
J2000 equatorial catalog coordinates
Distance
4319.952022743938 ly
Distance kind
Not supplied by the source catalog
Uncertainty
Not supplied by the source catalog
Apparent magnitude
6.4
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

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