IC 1215
IC 1215
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
355 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
94k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 355 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1215 as it looked roughly 355 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 1216Spiral2.3 million ly
apartNGC 6079Elliptical10 million ly
apartIC 1204Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 6071Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 1187Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 6048Elliptical19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6079Elliptical10 million ly
apartIC 1204Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 6071Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 1187Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 6048Elliptical19 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).