IC 1054
IC 1054
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
384 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
115k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 384 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1054 as it looked roughly 384 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 5718Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 5776Elliptical18 million ly
apartIC 1068Elliptical18 million ly
apartIC 1070Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 1059Lenticular20 million ly
apartIC 1042Lenticular21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5776Elliptical18 million ly
apartIC 1068Elliptical18 million ly
apartIC 1070Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 1059Lenticular20 million ly
apartIC 1042Lenticular21 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).