NGC 6243
NGC 6243
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
500 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
176k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 500 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6243 as it looked roughly 500 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 6233Lenticular6.0 million ly
apartNGC 6201Galaxy25 million ly
apartNGC 6203Elliptical30 million ly
apartIC 4630Lenticular33 million ly
apartNGC 6228Barred spiral34 million ly
apartIC 4620Barred spiral39 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6201Galaxy25 million ly
apartNGC 6203Elliptical30 million ly
apartIC 4630Lenticular33 million ly
apartNGC 6228Barred spiral34 million ly
apartIC 4620Barred spiral39 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).