NGC 7747
NGC 7747
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
361 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
148k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 361 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7747 as it looked roughly 361 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 7737Lenticular8.3 million ly
apartNGC 7726Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7765Galaxy12 million ly
apartNGC 7766Galaxy13 million ly
apartNGC 7767Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 7720AElliptical19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7726Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7765Galaxy12 million ly
apartNGC 7766Galaxy13 million ly
apartNGC 7767Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 7720AElliptical19 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).