NGC 3545A
NGC 3545A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
418 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
141k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 418 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3545A as it looked roughly 418 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 3542Barred spiral4.4 million ly
apartNGC 3545BElliptical14 million ly
apartIC 2617Lenticular18 million ly
apartIC 2616Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 2619Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 2615Lenticular23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3545BElliptical14 million ly
apartIC 2617Lenticular18 million ly
apartIC 2616Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 2619Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 2615Lenticular23 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).