Cosmic Atlas object record
NGC 6266
NGC6266, NGC 6266, M062, Messier 062
- Object type
- star_cluster
- Constellation
- Oph
- Right ascension
- 255.3025°
- Declination
- -30.11236111°
- Reference frame
- J2000 equatorial catalog coordinates
- Distance
- 22478.041193447418 ly
- Distance kind
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Uncertainty
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Apparent magnitude
- 7.39
- 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