NGC 1111
NGC 1111
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
420 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
81k ly
across
15.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 420 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1111 as it looked roughly 420 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 1109Elliptical4.5 million ly
apartIC 1857Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 1115Lenticular15 million ly
apartIC 1855Lenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 1112Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 1028Spiral31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1857Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 1115Lenticular15 million ly
apartIC 1855Lenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 1112Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 1028Spiral31 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).