Key facts
- Constellation
- Ursa Minor
- Right ascension
- 16 32 39.217
- Declination
- +78 ° 11 ′ 53.56 ″
- Redshift
- 0.004543 ± 0.000013
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1,368 km/s
- Distance
- 67.2 Mly (20.6 Mpc )
- Type
- (R)SB(rs)bc
- Apparent size v
- 55,000 light years
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- active galactic nucleus
- Constellation
- Ursa Minor
- Distance from Earth
- 67200000
- Image
- NGC 6217 hs-2009-25-bc-full.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 1706108658063155840
- Commons category
- NGC 6217
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1797-12-12
- redshift
- 0.0046
- galaxy morphological type
- SBbc
- apparent magnitude
- 8.676
- right ascension
- 248.16344879833100
- declination
- 78.19818577593310
- radial velocity
- 1363
- epoch
- J2000.0
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