NGC 6850
NGC 6850
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
229 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
135k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 229 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6850 as it looked roughly 229 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 4933Barred spiral2.7 million ly
apartIC 4937Barred spiral9.0 million ly
apartIC 4995Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 4881Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4963Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4882Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4937Barred spiral9.0 million ly
apartIC 4995Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 4881Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4963Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4882Barred spiral16 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).