NGC 7813
NGC 7813
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
422 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
99k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 422 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7813 as it looked roughly 422 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 7808Lenticular12 million ly
apartIC 1520Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 7776Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 1521Lenticular40 million ly
apartNGC 61ALenticular64 million ly
apartNGC 61BLenticular64 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1520Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 7776Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 1521Lenticular40 million ly
apartNGC 61ALenticular64 million ly
apartNGC 61BLenticular64 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).