IC 1043
IC 1043
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
446 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
96k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 446 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1043 as it looked roughly 446 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 5680Elliptical44 million ly
apartNGC 5679BBarred spiral47 million ly
apartIC 1072Elliptical49 million ly
apartIC 1035Elliptical51 million ly
apartIC 1089Elliptical60 million ly
apartIC 1068Elliptical60 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5679BBarred spiral47 million ly
apartIC 1072Elliptical49 million ly
apartIC 1035Elliptical51 million ly
apartIC 1089Elliptical60 million ly
apartIC 1068Elliptical60 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).