NGC 2617
NGC 2617
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
200 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
81k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 200 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2617 as it looked roughly 200 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 2642Barred spiral6.0 million ly
apartNGC 2615Barred spiral7.7 million ly
apartNGC 2618Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 2555Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 503Spiral29 million ly
apartIC 504Lenticular31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2615Barred spiral7.7 million ly
apartNGC 2618Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 2555Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 503Spiral29 million ly
apartIC 504Lenticular31 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).