IC 1248
IC 1248
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
234 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
56k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 234 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1248 as it looked roughly 234 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 6297Lenticular9.2 million ly
apartNGC 6291Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 6206Lenticular17 million ly
apartIC 1241Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1231Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 6449Spiral25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6291Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 6206Lenticular17 million ly
apartIC 1241Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1231Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 6449Spiral25 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).