NGC 2417
NGC 2417
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
150 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
108k ly
across
12.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 150 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2417 as it looked roughly 150 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 2200Spiral890,000 ly
apartNGC 2369Spiral4.3 million ly
apartNGC 2369ASpiral4.4 million ly
apartNGC 2369BBarred spiral8.9 million ly
apartNGC 2297Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 2305Elliptical16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2369Spiral4.3 million ly
apartNGC 2369ASpiral4.4 million ly
apartNGC 2369BBarred spiral8.9 million ly
apartNGC 2297Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 2305Elliptical16 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).