IC 1029
IC 1029
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
111 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
11.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 111 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1029 as it looked roughly 111 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 5660Spiral2.8 million ly
apartNGC 5693Spiral5.0 million ly
apartNGC 5783Spiral7.6 million ly
apartNGC 5633Barred spiral7.8 million ly
apartNGC 5602Spiral7.9 million ly
apartNGC 5707Spiral8.2 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5693Spiral5.0 million ly
apartNGC 5783Spiral7.6 million ly
apartNGC 5633Barred spiral7.8 million ly
apartNGC 5602Spiral7.9 million ly
apartNGC 5707Spiral8.2 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).