NGC 7461
NGC 7461
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
199 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
54k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 199 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7461 as it looked roughly 199 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 7567Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 7563Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 7580Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 7515Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 7653Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 5292Spiral20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7563Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 7580Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 7515Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 7653Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 5292Spiral20 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).