Cosmic Atlas object record
NGC 6838
NGC6838, NGC 6838, M071, Messier 071, NGC 6839, NGC6839
- Object type
- star_cluster
- Constellation
- Sge
- Right ascension
- 298.442125°
- Declination
- 18.77838889°
- Reference frame
- J2000 equatorial catalog coordinates
- Distance
- 14261.319532873133 ly
- Distance kind
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Uncertainty
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Apparent magnitude
- 6.1
- 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