Galaxy · constellation Pav
NGC 6872
NGC 6872ESO 073-032PGC 64413
Catalogue data
- Right ascension
- 20h 16m 56.6s
- Declination
- -70° 46' 05"
- Size
- 4.7′ × 1.8′
- Position angle
- 45°
- Magnitude
- 11.6 (V)
- Surface brightness
- 24.03 mag/arcsec²
- Hubble type
- SBb
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Suggested techniques
- LRGB, RGB, OSC
- Data source
- OpenNGC
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