IC 1188A
IC 1188A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
508 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
81k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 508 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1188A as it looked roughly 508 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 1188BSpiral4.9 million ly
apartNGC 6050BSpiral7.1 million ly
apartIC 1190Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 6061Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 6039Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 6055Elliptical15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6050BSpiral7.1 million ly
apartIC 1190Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 6061Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 6039Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 6055Elliptical15 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).