NGC 6801
NGC 6801
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
203 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
80k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 203 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6801 as it looked roughly 203 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 1301Lenticular20 million ly
apartNGC 6701Spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 6750Spiral36 million ly
apartNGC 6711Barred spiral36 million ly
apartNGC 6792Barred spiral43 million ly
apartNGC 6824Spiral45 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6701Spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 6750Spiral36 million ly
apartNGC 6711Barred spiral36 million ly
apartNGC 6792Barred spiral43 million ly
apartNGC 6824Spiral45 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).