NGC 6844
NGC 6844
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
142 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
52k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 142 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6844 as it looked roughly 142 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 5023Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 6943Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 7020Lenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 7032Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 4934Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 5084Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6943Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 7020Lenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 7032Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 4934Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 5084Barred spiral19 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).