NGC 471
NGC 471
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
192 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
59k ly
across
13.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 192 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 471 as it looked roughly 192 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
NGC 469Spiral460,000 ly
apartIC 1702Spiral7.9 million ly
apartIC 1715Irregular14 million ly
apartIC 1721Barred spiral29 million ly
apartIC 1725Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 234Spiral34 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1702Spiral7.9 million ly
apartIC 1715Irregular14 million ly
apartIC 1721Barred spiral29 million ly
apartIC 1725Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 234Spiral34 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).