IC 1208
IC 1208
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
450 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
164k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 450 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1208 as it looked roughly 450 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 6126Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 6112Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 6097Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 6129Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 6108Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 6122Barred spiral21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6112Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 6097Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 6129Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 6108Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 6122Barred spiral21 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).