Cosmic Atlas object record
NGC 6259
NGC6259, NGC 6259, NGC 6222, NGC6222
- Object type
- star_cluster
- Constellation
- Sco
- Right ascension
- 255.18916667°
- Declination
- -44.65497222°
- Reference frame
- J2000 equatorial catalog coordinates
- Distance
- 7994.028865616687 ly
- Distance kind
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Uncertainty
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Apparent magnitude
- 8.0
- 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