NGC 810 NED01

NGC 810 NED01

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
362 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
147k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 362 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 810 NED01 as it looked roughly 362 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 1775Spiral2.1 million ly
apart
IC 1755Spiral17 million ly
apart
NGC 810 NED02Elliptical17 million ly
apart
IC 213Spiral33 million ly
apart
NGC 791Elliptical33 million ly
apart
NGC 766Elliptical37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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