IC 1317
IC 1317
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
179 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
40k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 179 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1317 as it looked roughly 179 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 6964Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 6967Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 6961Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 6959Lenticular20 million ly
apartNGC 6954Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 6945Elliptical22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6967Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 6961Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 6959Lenticular20 million ly
apartNGC 6954Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 6945Elliptical22 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).