NGC 6392 - Intermediate Spiral Galaxy in Apus

NGC 6392 is a Intermediate Spiral Galaxy in the Apus constellation. NGC 6392 is situated south of the celestial equator and, as such, it is more easily visible from the southern hemisphere.

Available Resources for NGC 6392 - Intermediate Spiral Galaxy in Apus

• Photometric information of NGC 6392
• Apparent size of NGC 6392
• Digitized Sky Survey image of NGC 6392
• NGC 6392 morphological classification.
• Celestial coordinates and finder charts of NGC 6392.
• Rise ans set times of NGC 6392 from your location.

Photometric information of NGC 6392

The following table lists the magnitude of NGC 6392 in different bands of the electomagnetic spectrum (when available), from the B band (445nm wavelength, corresponding to the Blue color), to the V band ( 551nm wavelength, corresponding to Green/Yellow color), to the J, H, K bands (corresponding to 1220nm, 1630nm, 2190nm wavelengths respectively, which are colors not visible to the human eye).

For more information about photometry in astronomy, check the photometric system article on Wikipedia.

Apparent size of NGC 6392

The following table reports NGC 6392 apparent angular size. The green area displayed on top of the DSS2 image of NGC 6392 is a visual representation of it.

Digitized Sky Survey image of NGC 6392

The image below is a photograph of NGC 6392 from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2 - see the credits section) taken in the red channel. The area of sky represented in the image is 0.5x0.5 degrees (30x30 arcmins).

NGC 6392 - Intermediate Spiral Galaxy in Apus morphological classification

NGC 6392 - Intermediate Spiral Galaxy in Apus is classified as Intermediate Spiral (SABa) according to the Hubble and de Vaucouleurs galaxy morphological classification. The diagram below shows a visual representation of the position of NGC 6392 - Intermediate Spiral Galaxy in Apus in the Hubble de Vaucouleurs sequence.

Celestial coordinates and finder chart of NGC 6392

Celestial coordinates for the J2000 equinox of NGC 6392 are provided in the following table:

The simplified sky charts below show the position of NGC 6392 in the sky. The first chart has a field of view of 60° while the second one has a field of view of 10°.

Rise ans set times of NGC 6392 from your location

NGC 6392 - Intermediate Spiral Galaxy in Apus is currently not visible from Greenwich, United Kingdom edit_location_alt