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NGC 6346

NGC6346, NGC 6346

NGC 6346
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Object type
galaxy
Constellation
Dra
Right ascension
258.85204167°
Declination
57.32252778°
Reference frame
J2000 equatorial catalog coordinates
Distance
412209263.7400012 ly
Distance kind
Not supplied by the source catalog
Uncertainty
Not supplied by the source catalog
Apparent magnitude
14.97
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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