Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- LIN
- Redshift
- z = 0.03518
- Morphology
- SA
- Coordinates
- RA 254.1272° · Dec 27.9776°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Hercules
- Right ascension
- 16 56 30.526
- Declination
- +27 ° 58 ′ 39.24 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 10,601 km/s
- Distance
- 471.4 Mly (144.53 Mpc)
- Surface brightness
- 28.5 mag/arcsec
- Type
- S0/a
- Size
- 200,000 ly
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- galaxy cluster
- Constellation
- Hercules
- Distance from Earth
- 144.54
- Image
- NGC6261 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 1307120245103041280
- time of discovery or invention
- 1880-07-13
- discoverer or inventor
- Édouard Stephan
- redshift
- 0.035391
- galaxy morphological type
- 1
- apparent magnitude
- 16.536
- radial velocity
- 10610
- right ascension
- 254.12719182151800
- declination
- 27.97756648780710
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 6261
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 6261 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Hercules. It is located 470 million light-years away from the Solar System and has an approximate diameter of 200,000 light-years.
NGC 6261 was discovered on July 13, 1880, by French astronomer Edouard Stephan. The galaxy is described as LINER according to SIMBAD database and presents emission spectrum in its nucleus which is categorized by broad lines of weak ionized atoms.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 6261” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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