IC 1195
IC 1195
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
556 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
99k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 556 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1195 as it looked roughly 556 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 1193Lenticular9.5 million ly
apartNGC 6056Lenticular9.9 million ly
apartIC 1189Lenticular11 million ly
apartIC 1194Lenticular12 million ly
apartIC 1191 NED01Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1191 NED02Elliptical18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6056Lenticular9.9 million ly
apartIC 1189Lenticular11 million ly
apartIC 1194Lenticular12 million ly
apartIC 1191 NED01Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1191 NED02Elliptical18 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).