IC 1191 NED01
IC 1191 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
542 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
112k ly
across
16.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 542 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1191 NED01 as it looked roughly 542 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 1194Lenticular5.8 million ly
apartIC 1189Lenticular8.2 million ly
apartNGC 6056Lenticular8.2 million ly
apartIC 1192Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 6062BSpiral14 million ly
apartNGC 6057Lenticular15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1189Lenticular8.2 million ly
apartNGC 6056Lenticular8.2 million ly
apartIC 1192Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 6062BSpiral14 million ly
apartNGC 6057Lenticular15 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).