NGC 5818
NGC 5818
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
366 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
106k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 366 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5818 as it looked roughly 366 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 4528Barred spiral6.3 million ly
apartIC 1074Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5835Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5767Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 5720Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 1033Elliptical30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1074Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5835Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5767Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 5720Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 1033Elliptical30 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).