NGC 1215

NGC 1215

NGC 1215 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 228 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,933 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sab
228 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
111k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
4,933 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 228 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1215 as it looked roughly 228 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 1214Lenticular2.9 million ly
apart
NGC 1185Barred spiral5.6 million ly
apart
IC 1897Lenticular6.3 million ly
apart
NGC 1238Elliptical7.3 million ly
apart
NGC 1216Lenticular7.5 million ly
apart
NGC 1154Spiral14 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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