NGC 6300
NGC 6300
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
51 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
80k ly
across
10.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 51 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6300 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
NGC 6673Elliptical9.3 million ly
apartNGC 6684AIrregular10 million ly
apartNGC 6221Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 6215Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 5643Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 5530Spiral30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6684AIrregular10 million ly
apartNGC 6221Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 6215Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 5643Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 5530Spiral30 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).