Cosmic Atlas object record
NGC 6656
NGC6656, NGC 6656, M022, Messier 022
- Object type
- star_cluster
- Constellation
- Sgr
- Right ascension
- 279.10083333°
- Declination
- -23.90341667°
- Reference frame
- J2000 equatorial catalog coordinates
- Distance
- 12359.089720219601 ly
- Distance kind
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Uncertainty
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Apparent magnitude
- 6.17
- 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