IC 1075
IC 1075
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
284 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
98k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 284 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1075 as it looked roughly 284 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 1076Barred spiral1.5 million ly
apartNGC 5760Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 1097Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1086Lenticular18 million ly
apartIC 4469Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 4482Barred spiral24 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5760Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 1097Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1086Lenticular18 million ly
apartIC 4469Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 4482Barred spiral24 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).