NGC 1232A

NGC 1232A

NGC 1232A is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 310 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 77,000 ly, about 77% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 6,496 km/s.

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
6,496 km/s
receding (RC3)

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.

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apart
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apart
IC 1876Lenticular38 million ly
apart
NGC 965Barred spiral51 million ly
apart
NGC 1098Elliptical53 million ly
apart
NGC 951Barred spiral55 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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