Cosmic Atlas object record
NGC 6208
NGC6208, NGC 6208
- Object type
- star_cluster
- Constellation
- Ara
- Right ascension
- 252.36745833°
- Declination
- -53.72833333°
- Reference frame
- J2000 equatorial catalog coordinates
- Distance
- 3929.5949122550282 ly
- Distance kind
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Uncertainty
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Apparent magnitude
- 7.2
- Catalog source
- openngc_ngc_ic_catalog
- Catalog epoch
- J2000 catalog coordinates
- Position epoch
- J2000
- Selection caveat
- OpenNGC Pax is not treated as parallax for galaxies. Galactic classes never use Hubble-flow redshift or radial-velocity distance, and radial velocity alone is never converted to distance.
- Cosmology
- Not supplied by the source catalog