NGC 7546
NGC 7546
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
384 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
74k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 384 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7546 as it looked roughly 384 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 7566Barred spiral8.8 million ly
apartNGC 7533Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 7434Elliptical31 million ly
apartNGC 7556Elliptical36 million ly
apartNGC 7589Spiral37 million ly
apartIC 1482Elliptical42 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7533Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 7434Elliptical31 million ly
apartNGC 7556Elliptical36 million ly
apartNGC 7589Spiral37 million ly
apartIC 1482Elliptical42 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).