Key facts
- Constellation
- Hercules
- Right ascension
- 16 05 38.1
- Declination
- 17 ° 46 ′ 04 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 10196 km/s
- Distance
- 140 Mpc (457 Mly )
- Group or cluster
- Hercules Cluster
- Type
- SAB0^-
- Size
- ~129,000 ly (39.4 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 0.86 x 0.47
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Hercules
- Distance from Earth
- 130.02
- Image
- SDSS NGC 6054.jpeg
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- discoverer or inventor
- Lewis A. Swift
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 1199749434253232384
- redshift
- 0.033483
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-06-27
- galaxy morphological type
- -5
- apparent magnitude
- 17.012
- radial velocity
- 10038
- right ascension
- 241.40895539281570
- declination
- 17.76788361295250
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 6054
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 6054 is a barred lenticular galaxy located about 460 million light-years away in the constellation Hercules. It was discovered by astronomer Lewis Swift on June 27, 1886. It was then rediscovered by astronomer Guillaume Bigourdan on June 1, 1888. PGC 57073 is often misidentified as NGC 6054. NGC 6054 is a member of the Hercules Cluster.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 6054” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.