NGC 7569
NGC 7569
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
300 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
84k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 300 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7569 as it looked roughly 300 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 1481Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 7451Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 7430Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 7505Lenticular32 million ly
apartIC 1504Barred spiral41 million ly
apartNGC 7704Elliptical43 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7451Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 7430Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 7505Lenticular32 million ly
apartIC 1504Barred spiral41 million ly
apartNGC 7704Elliptical43 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).