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NGC 6998

RadioG SIMBAD rG 96 papers

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Right ascension: 21h 01m 37.71s
Declination: −28° 01′ 54.4″
Galactic l, b: 17.763, -39.56
Magnitude V: 15.6
Redshift z: 0.040142
Radial velocity: 11,793 km/s
Angular size: 0.543′ × 0.489′

Also known as

25 identifiers

1Jy 2058-281Jy 2058-2822MASX J21013771-28015436dFGS gJ210137.7-280154Anon 2058-28APMBGC 464+077-100Cul 2058-282ENACS ACO 3733 14ESO 464-14ESO-LV 464-0140G4Jy 1671LEDA 65925MRC 2058-282MSH 20-2-15NGC 6998OHIO W -297.8PKS 2058-28PKS 2058-282PKS J2101-2801[PL95] ACO 3733 G2[S96b] ACO 3733 20SGC 205838-2813.7[SS98] 205838.66-281344.1WISEA J210137.70-280154.3[LPS2014] 315.4066-28.0323

In the same field

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Object	Type	Separation	V
2MASX J21013370-2802183	GtowardsCl	58.14″	—
2MASX J21013596-2802533	GtowardsCl	63.89″	—
2MASX J21013672-2803233	GtowardsCl	90.19″	—
2MASX J21013286-2806253	GtowardsCl	278.9″	—
NGC 6999	BrightestCG	304.8″	—
2MASX J21011781-2805109	GtowardsCl	328.6″	—
2MASX J21014261-2807213	Galaxy	333″	—
ACO 3733	ClG	340.9″	—
2MASX J21020103-2759033	GtowardsCl	353.5″	—
2MASX J21013063-2754599	GtowardsCl	424.4″	—
2MASX J21013847-2753583	GtowardsCl	476.6″	—

Provenance

where this card came from

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Seeded from the bulk archive load; no per-object fetch yet.

Machine-readable: /api/v1/object/ngc-6998 · Registry entry updated 2026-08-14.