Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.03319
- Morphology
- SA
- Coordinates
- RA 241.2487° · Dec 17.8704°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Hercules
- Right ascension
- 16 04 59.7
- Declination
- 17 ° 52 ′ 13 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 9925 km/s
- Distance
- 143 Mpc (466 Mly )
- Group or cluster
- Hercules Cluster
- Type
- SA0^0
- Size
- ~100,100 ly (30.69 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 0.62 x 0.58
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Hercules
- Distance from Earth
- 129.42
- Image
- SDSS NGC 6044.jpeg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 1199941505191077248
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-06-27
- discoverer or inventor
- Lewis A. Swift
- redshift
- 0.03314
- galaxy morphological type
- -2
- apparent magnitude
- 13.323
- right ascension
- 241.24865878655740
- declination
- 17.87035485147670
- radial velocity
- 9785
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 6044
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 6044 is a lenticular galaxy located about 465 million light-years away in the constellation Hercules. NGC 6044 was discovered by astronomer Lewis Swift on June 27, 1886. It was then rediscovered by astronomer Guillaume Bigourdan on June 8, 1888. NGC 6044 is a member of the Hercules Cluster.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 6044” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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