NGC 1232A
NGC 1232A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBm
310 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
77k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 310 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1232A as it looked roughly 310 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
IC 1899Lenticular30 million ly
apartNGC 1124Lenticular36 million ly
apartIC 1876Lenticular38 million ly
apartNGC 965Barred spiral51 million ly
apartNGC 1098Elliptical53 million ly
apartNGC 951Barred spiral55 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1124Lenticular36 million ly
apartIC 1876Lenticular38 million ly
apartNGC 965Barred spiral51 million ly
apartNGC 1098Elliptical53 million ly
apartNGC 951Barred spiral55 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).