Key facts
- Constellation
- Corona Borealis
- Right ascension
- 16 19 48.11646
- Declination
- +37 ° 46 ′ 27.6833 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 9049 km/s
- Distance
- 440 Mly (134.9 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Abell 2199
- Type
- Sb
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Corona Borealis
- Distance from Earth
- 132.02
- Image
- NGC6120 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 1330714287170320512
- time of discovery or invention
- 1787-03-17
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- apparent magnitude
- 12.859
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 6120
- galaxy morphological type
- S/Irr
- redshift
- 0.030588
- right ascension
- 244.95048526131490
- declination
- 37.77435647875890
- radial velocity
- 9049
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 6120 is a peculiar spiral galaxy located roughly 440 million light-years (130 Megaparsecs) away from the Sun. It is located in the northern constellation of Corona Borealis, and is a member of the Abell 2199 galaxy cluster.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 6120” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.