IC 1047
IC 1047
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
429 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 429 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1047 as it looked roughly 429 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 4486Elliptical4.9 million ly
apartIC 4480Barred spiral7.3 million ly
apartIC 1037Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 5711Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5710Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 1052Spiral11 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4480Barred spiral7.3 million ly
apartIC 1037Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 5711Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5710Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 1052Spiral11 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).