NGC 1495

NGC 1495

NGC 1495 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Horologium about 60 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 39,000 ly, about 39% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,245 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
60 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
39k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
1,245 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 60 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1495 as it looked roughly 60 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 1970Barred spiral4.3 million ly
apart
NGC 1448Spiral5.8 million ly
apart
NGC 1483Barred spiral6.6 million ly
apart
NGC 1494Spiral8.3 million ly
apart
IC 2035Elliptical8.8 million ly
apart
NGC 1436Spiral9.6 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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