Key facts
- Constellation
- Hercules
- Right ascension
- 16 27 40.9
- Declination
- 39 ° 22 ′ 59 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 8980 km/s
- Distance
- 123 Mpc (401 Mly )
- Group or cluster
- Abell 2199
- Type
- E?
- Size
- ~162,000 ly (49.6 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 0.3 x 0.25
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Hercules
- Distance from Earth
- 128.17
- Image
- SDSS NGC 6158.jpeg
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- redshift
- 0.029707
- galaxy morphological type
- E/SO
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 1332592085523450752
- time of discovery or invention
- 1787-03-17
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- apparent magnitude
- 12.777
- right ascension
- 246.92035791706620
- declination
- 39.38301075225520
- radial velocity
- 8932
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 6158
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 6158 is an elliptical galaxy located about 400 million light-years away in the constellation Hercules. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on March 17, 1787 and is a member of Abell 2199.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 6158” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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