NGC 6845C
NGC 6845C
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
318 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
87k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 318 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6845C as it looked roughly 318 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 6845BBarred spiral3.7 million ly
apartNGC 6845DLenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 6845ABarred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 4923Lenticular31 million ly
apartIC 4983Barred spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 6919Spiral34 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6845DLenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 6845ABarred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 4923Lenticular31 million ly
apartIC 4983Barred spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 6919Spiral34 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).