NGC 1819

NGC 1819

NGC 1819 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Orion about 208 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 93,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,826 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
208 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
93k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
4,826 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 208 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1819 as it looked roughly 208 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 414Elliptical11 million ly
apart
IC 413Lenticular13 million ly
apart
IC 412Spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 1691Lenticular19 million ly
apart
NGC 1762Spiral19 million ly
apart
NGC 1713Elliptical24 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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