NGC 1808

NGC 1808

NGC 1808 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Columba about 47 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 74,000 ly, about 74% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,014 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
47 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
74k ly
across
10.2
apparent magnitude
1,014 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 47 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1808 as it looked roughly 47 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 1827Spiral1.9 million ly
apart
NGC 1679Barred spiral6.0 million ly
apart
NGC 1792Barred spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 1531Elliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 1510Lenticular11 million ly
apart
IC 2041Lenticular12 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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