NGC 6695
NGC 6695
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
257 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 257 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6695 as it looked roughly 257 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 1289Galaxy11 million ly
apartIC 1288Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 6646Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 6688Lenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 6606Spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 6713Galaxy31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1288Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 6646Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 6688Lenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 6606Spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 6713Galaxy31 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).