found in this work is in good agreement with that given by Reshetnikov et al. (1993a) ($R_{t}\,=\rm\,12.89$).

The isophotes of NGC 6286 in the $V$ passband are shown in Fig.9. As in the case of NGC 3808B, the main body of the galaxy is viewed nearly edge-on. The abovementioned dust strip results in strong isophotes distortion of the central part of the galaxy. The ring structure forming around the galaxy is well turned to the line of sight. The major axis of this possible ring is about 1.2’$=$27 kpc by isophote $\mu_{V}\,=\rm\,
24.35$, the apparent axial ratio is $b/a\,\approx\,$0.7.

### Host galaxy

Observed colour indexes of NGC 6286 given in Table 2 correspond to the normal Sa galaxy. After standard reductions for redshift and inclination colour indexes ($B-V\approx$+0.55 , $V-R\approx$+0.4) turn out to be the same as in Sbc-Sc galaxies (Buta et al. 1994, Buta & Williams 1995). However, NGC 6286 is Sb galaxy according to RC3. This discrepancy may be due to both abnormally blue colour of NGC 6286 and uncertainty in inclination correction for this nearly edge-on galaxy.

In Fig.10 the photometric profile along the major axis ($\rm P.A.=33^{o}$) in the $B$ band is shown. Up to $\rm 