NGC 3447A
NGC 3447A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sm
50 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
49k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 50 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3447A as it looked roughly 50 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 3447BIrregular710,000 ly
apartNGC 3454Barred spiral1.7 million ly
apartNGC 3455Spiral2.5 million ly
apartNGC 3443Spiral3.2 million ly
apartNGC 3501Spiral3.8 million ly
apartNGC 3457Elliptical4.2 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3454Barred spiral1.7 million ly
apartNGC 3455Spiral2.5 million ly
apartNGC 3443Spiral3.2 million ly
apartNGC 3501Spiral3.8 million ly
apartNGC 3457Elliptical4.2 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).