NGC 1717
NGC 1717
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
195 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
54k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 195 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1717 as it looked roughly 195 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 1719Spiral1.7 million ly
apartNGC 1740Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 1741BSpiral13 million ly
apartNGC 1682Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 1683Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 1713Elliptical14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1740Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 1741BSpiral13 million ly
apartNGC 1682Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 1683Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 1713Elliptical14 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).