Cosmic Atlas object record
NGC 6821
NGC6821, NGC 6821
- Object type
- galaxy
- Constellation
- Aql
- Right ascension
- 296.10025°
- Declination
- -6.83344444°
- Reference frame
- J2000 equatorial catalog coordinates
- Distance
- 70163576.13575149 ly
- Distance kind
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Uncertainty
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Apparent magnitude
- 13.07
- 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