NGC 1393

NGC 1393

NGC 1393 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 102 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 56,000 ly, about 56% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,185 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
102 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
56k ly
across
12.1
apparent magnitude
2,185 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 102 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1393 as it looked roughly 102 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 1416Elliptical7.7 million ly
apart
NGC 1309Barred spiral9.1 million ly
apart
NGC 1421Barred spiral9.9 million ly
apart
NGC 1359Spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 1383Lenticular11 million ly
apart
IC 346Lenticular11 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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