IC 1201
IC 1201
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
330 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
65k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 330 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1201 as it looked roughly 330 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 6091Elliptical9.6 million ly
apartIC 1214Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 6071Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 6079Elliptical23 million ly
apartIC 1187Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 1204Spiral25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1214Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 6071Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 6079Elliptical23 million ly
apartIC 1187Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 1204Spiral25 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).