IC 1094 NED01
IC 1094 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
618 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
99k ly
across
16.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 618 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1094 NED01 as it looked roughly 618 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 NED02Spiral3.8 million ly
apartIC 1093Spiral5.2 million ly
apartIC 1094 NED03Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4516Elliptical42 million ly
apartIC 1062Lenticular61 million ly
apartIC 1061Elliptical62 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1093Spiral5.2 million ly
apartIC 1094 NED03Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4516Elliptical42 million ly
apartIC 1062Lenticular61 million ly
apartIC 1061Elliptical62 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).