IC 1145
IC 1145
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
352 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
149k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 352 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1145 as it looked roughly 352 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 6011Barred spiral5.7 million ly
apartNGC 6094Lenticular11 million ly
apartIC 1187Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 6071Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 6048Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 1204Spiral20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6094Lenticular11 million ly
apartIC 1187Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 6071Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 6048Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 1204Spiral20 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).