NGC 62
NGC 62
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
304 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
88k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 304 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 62 as it looked roughly 304 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 2Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 19Elliptical18 million ly
apartIC 28Elliptical21 million ly
apartIC 5Elliptical22 million ly
apartIC 1529Lenticular24 million ly
apartIC 18Barred spiral26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 19Elliptical18 million ly
apartIC 28Elliptical21 million ly
apartIC 5Elliptical22 million ly
apartIC 1529Lenticular24 million ly
apartIC 18Barred spiral26 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).