IC 1188B
IC 1188B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
513 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
42k ly
across
17.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 513 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1188B as it looked roughly 513 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 6050BSpiral3.5 million ly
apartIC 1188ALenticular4.9 million ly
apartNGC 6061Elliptical7.6 million ly
apartIC 1190Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 6039Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 6057Lenticular16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1188ALenticular4.9 million ly
apartNGC 6061Elliptical7.6 million ly
apartIC 1190Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 6039Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 6057Lenticular16 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).