NGC 6228
NGC 6228
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
478 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
129k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 478 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6228 as it looked roughly 478 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 4630Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 6263Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 6264Barred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 6269Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 6261Lenticular26 million ly
apartNGC 6272Spiral28 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6263Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 6264Barred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 6269Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 6261Lenticular26 million ly
apartNGC 6272Spiral28 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).