NGC 7818
NGC 7818
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
288 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
78k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 288 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7818 as it looked roughly 288 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 7824Spiral3.7 million ly
apartNGC 36Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 1513Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 75Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 7774 NED02Elliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 7774 NED01Elliptical29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 36Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 1513Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 75Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 7774 NED02Elliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 7774 NED01Elliptical29 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).