Description - NGC 6070 is a classic late-type spiral with a multi-armed structure. The galaxy is inclined 65 degrees to the line of sight, and the spiral arms are lined by numerous young stellar associations. Fourier analysis does not detect a coherent two-armed spiral pattern. However, the deprojected image suggests a mostly one-armed spiral in the inner regions, winding in the same sense as the main outer arms.

The close-up of the central region reveals a very small ring and an even smaller possible central bar. The ring has an apparent axis ratio of 0.55 and an angular diameter of 11 arcseconds, corresponding to 1.7 kpc at the Tully (1988) distance of 31.2 Mpc. The deprojected image shows that the ring may be mostly circular in the galaxy plane, part of a close inner spiral.

Multi-wavelength morphology -

Interpretations - The small size of the inner ring suggests that it could be associated with an inner Lindblad resonance.