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NGC 6251

Blazar SIMBAD Bla 779 papers

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Right ascension: 16h 32m 31.97s
Declination: +82° 32′ 16.4″
Galactic l, b: 115.76, 31.2
Magnitude V: 12.89
Parallax: 0.3216 mas
Redshift z: 0.02
Radial velocity: 5,935.9 km/s
Proper motion: -0.76, -0.143 mas/yr
Angular size: 1.989′ × 1.653′

Also known as

62 identifiers

1AXG J163223+82321FGL J1635.4+82281Jy 1637+8261RXS J163230.3+8232142E 1637.8+82382E 37412FGL J1629.4+82362MASS J16323197+82321652MASX J16323175+82321653EG J1621+82033FGL J1630.6+82323FHL J1632.2+82324FGL J1630.6+82346C 1636+82399Y-MST J1632+8232CGRaBS J1632+8232CJ1 1637+826CLASS J163231.9753+823216.422CRATES J163215+823220EGR J1607+8216FL8Y J1631.0+8233Gaia DR2 1722820478889987840Gaia DR3 1722820478889987328[HB91] 1637+826ICRF J163231.9+823216IERS B1637+826INTREF 686INTREF 701KNOWS J163235+823228LEDA 58472NGC 6251NPM1G +82.0085NVSS J163226+823220NVSS J163231+823216[P82] 1637+826QSO B1637+826RX J1632.5+8232S5 1637+82S5 1637+826TIC 159539373UGC 10501UZC J163231.7+823216WB 1636+8240WMAP J1632+8232Z 1638.0+8239Z 367-13Zel 1637+8238[GGC2003] 1[HSN2016] J248.13+82.53[LCF2001] J1632+825MCG+14-08-010[MGL2009] BZU J1632+8232[MHM2002] 1[MHM2002] B1[MML2015] 5BZU J1632+8232[VV2000c] J163232.1+823217[VV2003c] J163232.1+823217[VV2006c] J163232.1+823217[VV2010c] J163232.1+823217[VV98c] J163232.0+823216[WWB2000] 1[ZEH2003] RX J1632.5+8232 2

In the same field

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Object	Type	Separation	V
NGC 6251 Group	ClG	1.541″	—
NGC 6252	GtowardsCl	141.1″	—
WMAP J1632+8227	Radio	337.6″	—

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Machine-readable: /api/v1/object/ngc-6251 · Registry entry updated 2026-08-14.