IC 1254
IC 1254
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
58 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
15k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 58 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1254 as it looked roughly 58 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 6340Lenticular1,000,000 ly
apartIC 1251Spiral1.9 million ly
apartNGC 6236Spiral3.2 million ly
apartIC 4660Barred spiral3.7 million ly
apartNGC 6395Barred spiral3.9 million ly
apartNGC 6412Spiral5.2 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1251Spiral1.9 million ly
apartNGC 6236Spiral3.2 million ly
apartIC 4660Barred spiral3.7 million ly
apartNGC 6395Barred spiral3.9 million ly
apartNGC 6412Spiral5.2 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).