NGC 6786
NGC 6786
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
349 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
82k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 349 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6786 as it looked roughly 349 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 6508Elliptical38 million ly
apartNGC 6650Elliptical44 million ly
apartNGC 6676Barred spiral50 million ly
apartNGC 6679Elliptical51 million ly
apartNGC 6424Elliptical53 million ly
apartNGC 6677Barred spiral53 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6650Elliptical44 million ly
apartNGC 6676Barred spiral50 million ly
apartNGC 6679Elliptical51 million ly
apartNGC 6424Elliptical53 million ly
apartNGC 6677Barred spiral53 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).