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Spiral galaxy in the constellation Hercules

NGC 6560

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NGC 6560

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Constellation: Hercules
Right ascension: 18h 05m 13.982s
Declination: +46° 52′ 53.53″
Redshift: 0.023486
Heliocentric radial velocity: 6958
Distance: 303.87 ± 71.20 Mly (93.167 ± 21.831 Mpc)
Apparent magnitude (V): 13.4
Apparent magnitude (B): 14.2
Type: S
Size: 1.2' × 0.8'

NGC 6560 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Hercules. It was discovered by Lewis A. Swift on 22 October 1886.

Supernovae

Three supernovae have been observed in NGC 6560:

SN 2021brb (Type II, mag. 18.8747) was discovered by Automatic Learning for the Rapid Classification of Events (ALeRCE) on 3 February 2021.
SN 2021qqn (Type Ia, mag. 18.5107) was discovered by ALeRCE on 21 June 2021.
SN 2022oyp (Type II, mag. 19.6437) was discovered by ALeRCE on 17 July 2022.

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