NGC 6285
NGC 6285 (below) and NGC 6286 (above) as seen through the 0.81 m Schulman Telescope at Mount Lemmon Observatory.
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationDraco
Right ascension16h 58m 24.0s[1]
Declination+58° 57′ 21″[1]
Redshift0.018983±0.000160[1]
Heliocentric radial velocity5691±48 km/s[1]
Galactocentric velocity5880±49 km/s[1]
Distance262 million light years (80.2 million parsecs)
Apparent magnitude (V)13.6[2]
Characteristics
TypeS0-a
Size91,000 light years
Apparent size (V)1.20′ × 0.7′[2]
Other designations
MCG 10-24-81, ZWG 299.37, ARP 293, PGC 59344 and KAZ 111
References: NASA/IPAC extragalactic datatbase, http://spider.seds.org/

NGC 6285 is an interacting spiral galaxy located in the constellation Draco. It is classified as S0-a in the galaxy morphological classification scheme and was discovered by the American astronomer Lewis A. Swift in 1886.[3] NGC 6285 is located at about 262 million light years away from Earth. NGC 6285 and NGC 6286 form a pair of interacting galaxies, with tidal distortions, categorized as Arp 293 in the Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies[1][2][4]

An uncropped version of the image showing the interacting galaxies and UGC 10641, a flat galaxy at the top left area

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Object No. 1 – NGC 6285". NASA/IPAC. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 "Revised NGC Data for NGC 6285". Seds. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  3. ↑ "NGC 6285 (= PGC 59344, and with NGC 6286 = Arp 293)". cseligman. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  4. ↑ "NGC 6286 & NGC 6285". PBase. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  • Media related to NGC 6285 at Wikimedia Commons


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