NGC 3069
NGC 3069
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABa
246 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
62k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 246 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3069 as it looked roughly 246 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 584Spiral3.4 million ly
apartNGC 3070Elliptical4.8 million ly
apartNGC 3134Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 548Lenticular26 million ly
apartNGC 2948Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 552Lenticular30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3070Elliptical4.8 million ly
apartNGC 3134Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 548Lenticular26 million ly
apartNGC 2948Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 552Lenticular30 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).