NGC 6449
NGC 6449
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
245 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
64k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 245 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6449 as it looked roughly 245 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 6532Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 6566Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 1286Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 1248Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 6291Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 6286Barred spiral31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6566Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 1286Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 1248Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 6291Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 6286Barred spiral31 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).