IC 1028
IC 1028
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
247 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 247 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1028 as it looked roughly 247 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 5697Spiral6.4 million ly
apartNGC 5696Barred spiral7.6 million ly
apartNGC 5601Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5598Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 5739Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 5603Lenticular16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5696Barred spiral7.6 million ly
apartNGC 5601Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5598Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 5739Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 5603Lenticular16 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).