NGC 1692

NGC 1692

NGC 1692 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 490 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 200,000 ly, about 2.0 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 10,381 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
490 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
197k ly
across
13.0
apparent magnitude
10,381 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 490 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1692 as it looked roughly 490 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 1650Elliptical48 million ly
apart
IC 2119Barred spiral53 million ly
apart
IC 408Lenticular61 million ly
apart
NGC 1631Lenticular63 million ly
apart
NGC 1630Lenticular71 million ly
apart
NGC 1623Lenticular74 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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