NGC 695
NGC 695
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
453 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
63k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 453 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 695 as it looked roughly 453 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 1742Spiral4.2 million ly
apartNGC 606Spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 719Lenticular34 million ly
apartIC 1753Elliptical54 million ly
apartIC 1752Galaxy64 million ly
apartNGC 900Lenticular66 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 606Spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 719Lenticular34 million ly
apartIC 1753Elliptical54 million ly
apartIC 1752Galaxy64 million ly
apartNGC 900Lenticular66 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).