NGC 6810

NGC 6810

NGC 6810 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pavo about 89 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 98,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 1,958 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sab
89 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
98k ly
across
11.4
apparent magnitude
1,958 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 89 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6810 as it looked roughly 89 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 4871Spiral2.8 million ly
apart
IC 4869Spiral6.1 million ly
apart
IC 4819Spiral7.7 million ly
apart
IC 4901Spiral12 million ly
apart
IC 4986Spiral16 million ly
apart
IC 4720Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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