NGC 6183
NGC 6183
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
229 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
157k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 229 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6183 as it looked roughly 229 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 4571Barred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 4644Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 4541Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 4578Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 4661Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 4654Spiral30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4644Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 4541Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 4578Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 4661Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 4654Spiral30 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).