NGC 6364
NGC 6364
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
319 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
128k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 319 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6364 as it looked roughly 319 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 6371Lenticular26 million ly
apartNGC 6315Spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 6314Spiral38 million ly
apartNGC 6446Spiral43 million ly
apartNGC 6447Spiral43 million ly
apartNGC 6518Elliptical43 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6315Spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 6314Spiral38 million ly
apartNGC 6446Spiral43 million ly
apartNGC 6447Spiral43 million ly
apartNGC 6518Elliptical43 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).