NGC 1475
NGC 1475
NGC 1475 is a galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 468 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 88,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 468 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Galaxy
morphology
468 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
88k ly
across
16.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 468 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1475 as it looked roughly 468 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 1477Elliptical3.7 million ly
apartNGC 1478Lenticular4.2 million ly
apartNGC 1472Lenticular7.4 million ly
apartNGC 1468Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 1447Lenticular18 million ly
apartIC 352Lenticular19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1478Lenticular4.2 million ly
apartNGC 1472Lenticular7.4 million ly
apartNGC 1468Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 1447Lenticular18 million ly
apartIC 352Lenticular19 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).