NGC 6776A
NGC 6776A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
178 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 178 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6776A as it looked roughly 178 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 4828Barred spiral6.5 million ly
apartIC 4820Spiral8.0 million ly
apartNGC 6706Elliptical9.9 million ly
apartNGC 6769Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 6770Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4833Spiral11 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4820Spiral8.0 million ly
apartNGC 6706Elliptical9.9 million ly
apartNGC 6769Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 6770Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4833Spiral11 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).