IC 1302
IC 1302
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
216 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
60k ly
across
13.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 216 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1302 as it looked roughly 216 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 1303Spiral7.6 million ly
apartNGC 6745 NED01Galaxy29 million ly
apartNGC 6792Barred spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 6700Barred spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 6740Spiral38 million ly
apartIC 1296Barred spiral39 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6745 NED01Galaxy29 million ly
apartNGC 6792Barred spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 6700Barred spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 6740Spiral38 million ly
apartIC 1296Barred spiral39 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).