NGC 6822
NGC 6822
Barnard's Galaxy is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Sagittarius. At magnitude 10.1 it is within reach of 4-6" (100-150 mm) telescope.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Irregular
type · IB
10.1
apparent magnitude
-26 km/s
receding (RC3)
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). No reliable distance is available, so none is shown.