NGC 1547
NGC 1547
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
446 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
182k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 446 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1547 as it looked roughly 446 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 2064Galaxy21 million ly
apartNGC 1563Galaxy22 million ly
apartNGC 1562Lenticular25 million ly
apartNGC 1564Lenticular26 million ly
apartNGC 1565Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 1584Elliptical29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1563Galaxy22 million ly
apartNGC 1562Lenticular25 million ly
apartNGC 1564Lenticular26 million ly
apartNGC 1565Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 1584Elliptical29 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).