NGC 1192

NGC 1192

NGC 1192 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 450 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 100,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 9,506 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
450 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
105k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
9,506 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 450 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1192 as it looked roughly 450 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.

Nearest galaxies
NGC 1191Elliptical7.9 million ly
apart
NGC 1180Elliptical12 million ly
apart
NGC 1181Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 1203AElliptical13 million ly
apart
IC 268Spiral20 million ly
apart
IC 299Lenticular25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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