NGC 1796B
NGC 1796B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
268 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
87k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 268 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1796B as it looked roughly 268 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 1669Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 1771Spiral36 million ly
apartNGC 1706Spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 1534Lenticular38 million ly
apartNGC 1526Spiral42 million ly
apartIC 2017Lenticular42 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1771Spiral36 million ly
apartNGC 1706Spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 1534Lenticular38 million ly
apartNGC 1526Spiral42 million ly
apartIC 2017Lenticular42 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).