NGC 6796
NGC 6796
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
100 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
50k ly
across
12.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 100 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6796 as it looked roughly 100 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 6757Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 6798Lenticular20 million ly
apartNGC 6911Barred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 6764Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 1291Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 6654Lenticular24 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6798Lenticular20 million ly
apartNGC 6911Barred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 6764Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 1291Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 6654Lenticular24 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).