IC 1093
IC 1093
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
623 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
181k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 623 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1093 as it looked roughly 623 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 1094 NED02Spiral1.6 million ly
apartIC 1094 NED01Elliptical5.2 million ly
apartIC 1094 NED03Spiral9.1 million ly
apartIC 4516Elliptical41 million ly
apartIC 1062Lenticular63 million ly
apartIC 1061Elliptical63 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1094 NED01Elliptical5.2 million ly
apartIC 1094 NED03Spiral9.1 million ly
apartIC 4516Elliptical41 million ly
apartIC 1062Lenticular63 million ly
apartIC 1061Elliptical63 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).