NGC 6102
NGC 6102
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
350 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
79k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 350 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6102 as it looked roughly 350 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 1138Lenticular46 million ly
apartNGC 6016Spiral54 million ly
apartIC 4573Spiral54 million ly
apartIC 4577Elliptical55 million ly
apartNGC 5991Elliptical55 million ly
apartIC 4579Elliptical56 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6016Spiral54 million ly
apartIC 4573Spiral54 million ly
apartIC 4577Elliptical55 million ly
apartNGC 5991Elliptical55 million ly
apartIC 4579Elliptical56 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).