NGC 2199
NGC 2199
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
211 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
136k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 211 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2199 as it looked roughly 211 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 2187BElliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 2150Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 2160Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 1956Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 2103Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 2089Spiral27 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2150Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 2160Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 1956Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 2103Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 2089Spiral27 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).