NGC 6365

{{Infobox galaxy

|image=N6365s.jpg

|name=NGC 6365

|constellation name=Draco (constellation)

|ra=17h 22m 43.7s

|dec=62° 10{{prime}} 12{{pprime}}

|appmag_v=13.9 and 14.2

|appmag_b=14.6 and 14,8

|sbrightness=14.00 and 12.56 mag/am²

|type=Interacting galaxies

|names=CGCG 300-20

VV 232

Arp 30

NGC 6365A

PGC 60174

UGC 10832

MCG 10-25-19

KCPG 511A

NGC 6365B

PGC 60171

CGCG 10833

MCG 10-25-18

KCPG 511B

IRAS 17222+6212}}

NGC 6365 is a pair of spiral galaxies in the constellation Draco. It consists of two galaxies, PGC 60174 to the south, and PGC 60171 to the north. These two galaxies are also designated respectively by the NASA/IPAC database as NGC 6365A{{Cite web |title=By Name {{!}} NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database |url=https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=NGC+6365A&hconst=67.8&omegam=0.308&omegav=0.692&wmap=4&corr_z=1 |access-date=2024-05-09 |website=ned.ipac.caltech.edu}} and NGC 6365B. This pair of galaxies was discovered by German astronomer Lewis Swift in 1884.{{Cite web |title=By Name {{!}} NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database |url=https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=NGC+6365&hconst=67.8&omegam=0.308&omegav=0.692&wmap=4&corr_z=1 |access-date=2024-05-09 |website=ned.ipac.caltech.edu}}

NGC 6563A

NGC 6563A is the northern counterpart of NGC 6563, and is a barred spiral galaxy. Its coordinates are 17h 22m 43.8s and 62° 09{{prime}} 57.9{{pprime}}. Its speed relative to the cosmic microwave background is 8,413 ± 4 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 124.1 ± 8.7 Mpc (~405 million ly).

The luminosity class of NGC 6365A is III-IV and it has a broad HI line. It is an active galaxy (AGN){{Cite web |title=NGC 6365A |url=https://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id |access-date=2024-05-09 |website=simbad.u-strasbg.fr}} of type Seyfert 2.

With a surface brightness equal to 14.00 mag/am^2, we can qualify NGC 6365A as a low surface brightness galaxy (LSB). LSB galaxies are diffuse (D) galaxies with a surface brightness less than one magnitude lower than that of the ambient night sky.

To date, nearly fifteen measurements not based on redshift give a distance of 111.469 ± 31.088 Mpc (~364 million ly),{{Cite web |title=NED Query Results for NGC 6365A |url=https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nDistance?name=NGC+6365A |access-date=2024-05-09 |website=ned.ipac.caltech.edu}} which is within the values of the Hubble distance.

= Supernovae =

Three supernovae have been observed in NGC 6365A:

SN 2003U was discovered in NGC 6365A on January 27, 2003, by Scottish astronomer Tom Boles.{{Cite web |title=Tom Boles searching for SuperNovae at the Coddenham Observatory |url=https://www.coddenhamobservatories.org/ |access-date=2024-05-09 |website=coddenhamobservatories.org}} This supernova was of type{{nbsp}}Ia.
SN{{nbsp}}2016ino (type{{nbsp}}Ic-BL, mag. 17.8) was discovered on 26 November 2016 by Ron Arbour.{{cite web | website=Transient Name Server | title=SN{{nbsp}}2016ino | url=https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2016ino | publisher = IAU | access-date=5 September 2024}}
SN{{nbsp}}2020qim (type{{nbsp}}II, mag. 18.6) was discovered on 26 July 2020.{{cite web | website=Transient Name Server | title=SN{{nbsp}}2020qim | url=https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2020qim | publisher = IAU | access-date=5 September 2024}}

NGC 6563B

NGC is the southern counterpart of NGC 6563, and is a spiral galaxy. However, the NASA/IPAC database indicates that it is Magellanic in type. Its coordinates are 17h 22m 43.5s and 62° 10{{prime}} 25.4{{pprime}}.{{Cite web |title=By Name {{!}} NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database |url=https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=NGC+6365B&hconst=67.8&omegam=0.308&omegav=0.692&wmap=4&corr_z=1 |access-date=2024-05-09 |website=ned.ipac.caltech.edu}} Its speed relative to the cosmic microwave background is 7,975 ± 4 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 117.6 ± 8.2 Mpc (~384 million ly). The luminosity class of NGC 6365B is IV-V and it has a broad HI line. It also contains regions of ionized hydrogen.

Galaxy interaction

The pair of galaxies that make up NGC 6563 appear in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies under the designation Arp 30. Arp describes NGC 6365 as a spiral galaxy with an overdeveloped arm, but this has been recently confirmed by astronomers to be false.{{Cite web |title=New General Catalog Objects: NGC 6350 - 6399 |url=https://cseligman.com/text/atlas/ngc63a.htm#6365 |access-date=2024-05-09 |website=cseligman.com}} In the image used by Arp, PGC 60171 (NGC 6365B) appears to be part of PGC 60174 and to be one galaxy. But, they are actually two separate galaxies. According to redshift-based measurements, NGC 6365A is the most distant galaxy. However, given the uncertainties in the measurements, NGC 6365B could be the most distant galaxy. The image taken by the telescope at the Mount Lemmon observatory does not allow us to decide. There is no publication that is only speculative about their position and also about their interaction.