NGC 1309
NGC 1309
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
100 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
69k ly
across
11.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 100 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1309 as it looked roughly 100 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 1357Spiral8.7 million ly
apartNGC 1393Lenticular9.1 million ly
apartNGC 1421Barred spiral9.4 million ly
apartNGC 1359Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 1163Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 1383Lenticular12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1393Lenticular9.1 million ly
apartNGC 1421Barred spiral9.4 million ly
apartNGC 1359Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 1163Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 1383Lenticular12 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).