NGC 6845B
NGC 6845B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
315 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
71k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 315 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6845B as it looked roughly 315 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 6845CLenticular3.7 million ly
apartNGC 6845ABarred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 6845DLenticular19 million ly
apartIC 4923Lenticular31 million ly
apartIC 4983Barred spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 6919Spiral33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6845ABarred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 6845DLenticular19 million ly
apartIC 4923Lenticular31 million ly
apartIC 4983Barred spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 6919Spiral33 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).