IC 1034
IC 1034
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
529 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
91k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 529 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1034 as it looked roughly 529 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 4473 NED02Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4473 NED01Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 4463Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 4443Barred spiral31 million ly
apartIC 1058Spiral35 million ly
apartIC 4503Elliptical47 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4473 NED01Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 4463Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 4443Barred spiral31 million ly
apartIC 1058Spiral35 million ly
apartIC 4503Elliptical47 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).