NGC 6806
NGC 6806
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
270 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
96k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 270 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6806 as it looked roughly 270 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 4873Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 6794Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 6768Elliptical23 million ly
apartNGC 6805Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 4874Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 4926Elliptical30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6794Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 6768Elliptical23 million ly
apartNGC 6805Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 4874Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 4926Elliptical30 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).