NGC 2369A
NGC 2369A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
148 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
87k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 148 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2369A as it looked roughly 148 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 2200Spiral3.6 million ly
apartNGC 2369Spiral3.6 million ly
apartNGC 2417Barred spiral4.4 million ly
apartNGC 2369BBarred spiral6.7 million ly
apartNGC 2297Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 2305Elliptical14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2369Spiral3.6 million ly
apartNGC 2417Barred spiral4.4 million ly
apartNGC 2369BBarred spiral6.7 million ly
apartNGC 2297Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 2305Elliptical14 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).