NGC 1515A
NGC 1515A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
621 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
168k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 621 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1515A as it looked roughly 621 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
IC 2025Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 2033Spiral43 million ly
apartIC 2083Lenticular47 million ly
apartIC 1987 NED02Elliptical48 million ly
apartIC 2050Barred spiral49 million ly
apartIC 2081Elliptical49 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2033Spiral43 million ly
apartIC 2083Lenticular47 million ly
apartIC 1987 NED02Elliptical48 million ly
apartIC 2050Barred spiral49 million ly
apartIC 2081Elliptical49 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).