NGC 7399
NGC 7399
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
208 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
68k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 208 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7399 as it looked roughly 208 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 7441Spiral7.7 million ly
apartNGC 7309Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 1467Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 7393Barred spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 7300Spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 7665Barred spiral36 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7309Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 1467Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 7393Barred spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 7300Spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 7665Barred spiral36 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).