IC 1245
IC 1245
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
522 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
281k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 522 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1245 as it looked roughly 522 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 1249Barred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 6349Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 6311Elliptical40 million ly
apartIC 4638Spiral46 million ly
apartNGC 6312Elliptical50 million ly
apartIC 4617Barred spiral57 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6349Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 6311Elliptical40 million ly
apartIC 4638Spiral46 million ly
apartNGC 6312Elliptical50 million ly
apartIC 4617Barred spiral57 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).