IC 1249
IC 1249
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
522 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
36k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 522 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1249 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
NGC 6349Lenticular19 million ly
apartIC 1245Lenticular23 million ly
apartIC 4638Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 6311Elliptical59 million ly
apartIC 4617Barred spiral62 million ly
apartNGC 6282Barred spiral64 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1245Lenticular23 million ly
apartIC 4638Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 6311Elliptical59 million ly
apartIC 4617Barred spiral62 million ly
apartNGC 6282Barred spiral64 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).