NGC 1799
NGC 1799
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
207 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 207 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1799 as it looked roughly 207 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 1797Barred spiral1.2 million ly
apartNGC 1720Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 1721Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 2101Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 1741BSpiral18 million ly
apartNGC 1726Lenticular19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1720Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 1721Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 2101Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 1741BSpiral18 million ly
apartNGC 1726Lenticular19 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).