NGC 7808
NGC 7808
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
414 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
130k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 414 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7808 as it looked roughly 414 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 7813Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 1520Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 1521Lenticular29 million ly
apartNGC 7776Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 61ALenticular53 million ly
apartNGC 61BLenticular54 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1520Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 1521Lenticular29 million ly
apartNGC 7776Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 61ALenticular53 million ly
apartNGC 61BLenticular54 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).