NGC 6691
NGC 6691
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
274 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
117k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 274 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6691 as it looked roughly 274 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 1286Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 6532Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 6497Barred spiral38 million ly
apartNGC 6566Elliptical38 million ly
apartNGC 6562Elliptical41 million ly
apartNGC 6493Spiral42 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6532Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 6497Barred spiral38 million ly
apartNGC 6566Elliptical38 million ly
apartNGC 6562Elliptical41 million ly
apartNGC 6493Spiral42 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).