NGC 6283
NGC 6283
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
51 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
16k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 51 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6283 as it looked roughly 51 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 1218Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 6395Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 1251Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 6340Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 6236Spiral22 million ly
apartIC 1254Barred spiral22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6395Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 1251Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 6340Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 6236Spiral22 million ly
apartIC 1254Barred spiral22 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).