Cosmic Atlas object record
NGC 6902
NGC6902, NGC 6902, IC 4948, IC4948
- Object type
- galaxy
- Constellation
- Sgr
- Right ascension
- 306.11725°
- Declination
- -43.65352778°
- Reference frame
- J2000 equatorial catalog coordinates
- Distance
- 130786693.8799604 ly
- Distance kind
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Uncertainty
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Apparent magnitude
- 11.48
- 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