NGC 7198
NGC 7198
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
219 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
63k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 219 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7198 as it looked roughly 219 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 1413Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1401Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 7266Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 7288Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 7257Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 7215Lenticular33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1401Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 7266Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 7288Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 7257Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 7215Lenticular33 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).