NGC 6150
NGC 6150
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
408 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
191k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 408 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6150 as it looked roughly 408 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 6147Spiral4.7 million ly
apartNGC 6173Elliptical6.2 million ly
apartNGC 6166CElliptical7.4 million ly
apartNGC 6175 NED01Barred spiral7.5 million ly
apartNGC 6175 NED02Irregular7.5 million ly
apartNGC 6145Barred spiral7.9 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6173Elliptical6.2 million ly
apartNGC 6166CElliptical7.4 million ly
apartNGC 6175 NED01Barred spiral7.5 million ly
apartNGC 6175 NED02Irregular7.5 million ly
apartNGC 6145Barred spiral7.9 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).