IC 1371
IC 1371
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
431 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
178k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 431 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1371 as it looked roughly 431 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 5089Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 5090Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 7069Elliptical29 million ly
apartIC 1381Spiral31 million ly
apartIC 1383Barred spiral35 million ly
apartIC 1388Lenticular37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5090Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 7069Elliptical29 million ly
apartIC 1381Spiral31 million ly
apartIC 1383Barred spiral35 million ly
apartIC 1388Lenticular37 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).