NGC 6195
NGC 6195
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
419 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
175k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 419 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6195 as it looked roughly 419 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 4611Spiral4.7 million ly
apartNGC 6212Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 6166BSpiral14 million ly
apartNGC 6180Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 6158Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 6166CElliptical17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6212Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 6166BSpiral14 million ly
apartNGC 6180Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 6158Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 6166CElliptical17 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).