NGC 369
NGC 369
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
293 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
81k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 293 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 369 as it looked roughly 293 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 1622Spiral6.5 million ly
apartIC 1623BIrregular9.5 million ly
apartIC 1670ABarred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 93Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 58Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 247DBarred spiral26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1623BIrregular9.5 million ly
apartIC 1670ABarred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 93Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 58Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 247DBarred spiral26 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).