NGC 1199

NGC 1199

NGC 1199 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 127 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 100,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,668 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
127 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
104k ly
across
11.4
apparent magnitude
2,668 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 127 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1199 as it looked roughly 127 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 1188Lenticular1.4 million ly
apart
NGC 1190Lenticular3.8 million ly
apart
NGC 1209Elliptical4.6 million ly
apart
NGC 1189Spiral7.3 million ly
apart
NGC 1290Galaxy11 million ly
apart
IC 276Lenticular12 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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