NGC 2300
NGC 2300
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
90 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
79k ly
across
11.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 90 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2300 as it looked roughly 90 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 455Lenticular1.7 million ly
apartIC 499Spiral2.8 million ly
apartIC 469Spiral8.5 million ly
apartIC 467Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 2732Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 2268Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 499Spiral2.8 million ly
apartIC 469Spiral8.5 million ly
apartIC 467Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 2732Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 2268Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).