NGC 3541
NGC 3541
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
292 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
111k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 292 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3541 as it looked roughly 292 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 695Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 3723Elliptical30 million ly
apartIC 2889Spiral30 million ly
apartIC 2856Spiral31 million ly
apartIC 2910Lenticular31 million ly
apartNGC 3676Elliptical32 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3723Elliptical30 million ly
apartIC 2889Spiral30 million ly
apartIC 2856Spiral31 million ly
apartIC 2910Lenticular31 million ly
apartNGC 3676Elliptical32 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).