Cosmic Atlas object record
NGC 6218
NGC6218, NGC 6218, M012, Messier 012
- Object type
- star_cluster
- Constellation
- Oph
- Right ascension
- 251.8105°
- Declination
- -1.94783333°
- Reference frame
- J2000 equatorial catalog coordinates
- Distance
- 20590.68041140628 ly
- Distance kind
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Uncertainty
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Apparent magnitude
- 6.07
- 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