NGC 6317
NGC 6317
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
378 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
106k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 378 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6317 as it looked roughly 378 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
NGC 6319Elliptical4.0 million ly
apartNGC 6365BSpiral12 million ly
apartNGC 6365ABarred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 6435Elliptical30 million ly
apartNGC 6391Elliptical31 million ly
apartIC 1259 NED01Elliptical32 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6365BSpiral12 million ly
apartNGC 6365ABarred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 6435Elliptical30 million ly
apartNGC 6391Elliptical31 million ly
apartIC 1259 NED01Elliptical32 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).