NGC 6443
NGC 6443
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
426 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
140k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 426 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6443 as it looked roughly 426 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 1263Barred spiral40 million ly
apartNGC 6358Lenticular46 million ly
apartIC 1262Elliptical48 million ly
apartIC 1264Lenticular53 million ly
apartNGC 6454Elliptical56 million ly
apartNGC 6459Lenticular59 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6358Lenticular46 million ly
apartIC 1262Elliptical48 million ly
apartIC 1264Lenticular53 million ly
apartNGC 6454Elliptical56 million ly
apartNGC 6459Lenticular59 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).