Key facts
- Constellation
- Draco
- Right ascension
- 16 58 24.0
- Declination
- +58 ° 57 ′ 21 ″
- Redshift
- 0.018 983 ± 0.000 160
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5691 ± 48 km/s
- Galactocentric velocity
- 5880 ± 49 km/s
- Distance
- 262 million light years (80.2 million parsecs )
- Type
- S0-a
- Size
- 91,000 light years
- Apparent size v
- 1.20 ′ × 0.7 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Draco
- Distance from Earth
- 86.3
- Image
- N6286s-crop.png
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- catalog code
- PRC C-51
- Commons category
- NGC 6285
- discoverer or inventor
- Lewis A. Swift
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-00-00
- redshift
- 0.018613
- galaxy morphological type
- S
- apparent magnitude
- 11.050
- right ascension
- 254.6000667
- declination
- 58.9558972
- radial velocity
- 5528
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 6285 is an interacting spiral galaxy located in the constellation Draco. It is classified as S0-a in the galaxy morphological classification scheme and was discovered by the American astronomer Lewis A. Swift in 1886. NGC 6285 is located at about 262 million light years away from Earth. NGC 6285 and NGC 6286 form a pair of interacting galaxies, with tidal distortions, categorized as Arp 293 in the Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies.
An uncropped version of the image showing the interacting galaxies and UGC 10641, a flat galaxy at the top left area
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q2085291” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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