NGC 6817 NED02
NGC 6817 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
577 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
111k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 577 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6817 NED02 as it looked roughly 577 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 6787Spiral42 million ly
apartNGC 6747Elliptical110 million ly
apartNGC 6505Elliptical120 million ly
apartNGC 6463Elliptical130 million ly
apartNGC 6456Elliptical130 million ly
apartNGC 6462Elliptical130 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6747Elliptical110 million ly
apartNGC 6505Elliptical120 million ly
apartNGC 6463Elliptical130 million ly
apartNGC 6456Elliptical130 million ly
apartNGC 6462Elliptical130 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).