IC 1216
IC 1216
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
357 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
78k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 357 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1216 as it looked roughly 357 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 1215Barred spiral2.3 million ly
apartNGC 6079Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 1204Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 6071Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 1187Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 6048Elliptical18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6079Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 1204Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 6071Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 1187Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 6048Elliptical18 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).