NGC 1511

NGC 1511

NGC 1511 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Hydrus about 62 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 66,000 ly, about 66% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,334 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sab
62 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
66k ly
across
11.3
apparent magnitude
1,334 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 62 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1511 as it looked roughly 62 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 1511ABarred spiral1.9 million ly
apart
NGC 1473Irregular3.1 million ly
apart
NGC 1511BBarred spiral4.8 million ly
apart
NGC 1559Barred spiral5.9 million ly
apart
NGC 1809Spiral6.6 million ly
apart
NGC 1892Spiral9.0 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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