NGC 6930
NGC 6930
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
218 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
91k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 218 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6930 as it looked roughly 218 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 6928Barred spiral1.7 million ly
apartNGC 6917Barred spiral8.6 million ly
apartNGC 6927Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 6956Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 6927AElliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 6944Elliptical15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6917Barred spiral8.6 million ly
apartNGC 6927Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 6956Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 6927AElliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 6944Elliptical15 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).