NGC 6845C

NGC 6845C

NGC 6845C is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Telescopium about 318 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 87,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,070 km/s.

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
7,070 km/s
receding (RC3)

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
apart
NGC 6845DLenticular15 million ly
apart
NGC 6845ABarred spiral19 million ly
apart
IC 4923Lenticular31 million ly
apart
IC 4983Barred spiral34 million ly
apart
NGC 6919Spiral34 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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