NGC 6784A
NGC 6784A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
249 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
69k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 249 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6784A as it looked roughly 249 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 4859Spiral8.9 million ly
apartNGC 6776Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 4803Galaxy20 million ly
apartIC 4862Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 4794Elliptical21 million ly
apartIC 4809Galaxy21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6776Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 4803Galaxy20 million ly
apartIC 4862Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 4794Elliptical21 million ly
apartIC 4809Galaxy21 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).