NGC 5810
NGC 5810
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
154 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
44k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 154 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5810 as it looked roughly 154 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 5791Elliptical4.6 million ly
apartIC 1077Barred spiral8.2 million ly
apartNGC 5793Barred spiral8.5 million ly
apartNGC 5766Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 1081Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 5815Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1077Barred spiral8.2 million ly
apartNGC 5793Barred spiral8.5 million ly
apartNGC 5766Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 1081Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 5815Barred spiral14 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).