NGC 2146A

NGC 2146A

NGC 2146A is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis about 70 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 55,000 ly, about 55% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,534 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
70 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
55k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
1,534 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 70 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2146A as it looked roughly 70 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 391Spiral6.4 million ly
apart
NGC 2655Lenticular9.6 million ly
apart
NGC 2591Spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 2748Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
IC 512Spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 2760Elliptical12 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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