NGC 1601

NGC 1601

NGC 1601 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 233 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 64,000 ly, about 64% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,997 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
233 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
64k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
4,997 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 233 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1601 as it looked roughly 233 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 1612Lenticular5.0 million ly
apart
NGC 1603Lenticular8.0 million ly
apart
NGC 1606Lenticular8.0 million ly
apart
NGC 1618Barred spiral9.0 million ly
apart
NGC 1622Spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 1600Elliptical12 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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