NGC 820
NGC 820
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
206 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
80k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 206 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 820 as it looked roughly 206 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 786Spiral9.0 million ly
apartNGC 817Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 774Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 792Lenticular12 million ly
apartIC 193Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 716Spiral18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 817Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 774Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 792Lenticular12 million ly
apartIC 193Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 716Spiral18 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).