| NGC 6285 | |
| Epoch: | J2000 |
| Constellation Name: | Draco |
| Dist Ly: | 262 million light years (80.2 million parsecs) |
| Type: | S0-a |
| Size: | 91,000 light years |
| Appmag V: | 13.6 |
| Size V: | 1.20 × 0.7 |
| Names: | MCG 10-24-81, ZWG 299.37, ARP 293, PGC 59344 and KAZ 111 |
| References: | NASA/IPAC extragalactic datatbase, http://spider.seds.org/ |
NGC 6285 is an interacting spiral galaxy located in the constellation Draco. It is classified as S0-a in the galaxy morphological classification scheme and was discovered by the American astronomer Lewis A. Swift in 1886.[1] NGC 6285 is located at about 262 million light years away from Earth. NGC 6285 and NGC 6286 form a pair of interacting galaxies, with tidal distortions, categorized as Arp 293 in the Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies[2] [3] [4]