NGC 7197
NGC 7197
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
210 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
102k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 210 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7197 as it looked roughly 210 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 7223Barred spiral8.9 million ly
apartNGC 7248Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 7282Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 7264Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 1392Elliptical29 million ly
apartNGC 7273Lenticular35 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7248Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 7282Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 7264Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 1392Elliptical29 million ly
apartNGC 7273Lenticular35 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).