IC 1301
IC 1301
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
189 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
79k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 189 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1301 as it looked roughly 189 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 6801Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 6750Spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 6824Spiral36 million ly
apartNGC 6792Barred spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 6711Barred spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 6701Spiral40 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6750Spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 6824Spiral36 million ly
apartNGC 6792Barred spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 6711Barred spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 6701Spiral40 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).